Product Description: Hedrick examines London's inner life, primarily as it is revealed in his art, to discover the man concealed beneath the public persona. Although London was wealthy, famous, and one of the last great self-made men in America, Hedrick shows that he was always torn by his troubled relationship to his lower-class origins...read more

Offers a close-up look at the life and work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century mores, attitudes toward women, and social upheaval

Collects Stowe's fiction, antislavery writings, and early essays and sketches from the 1830s through the 1860s that focused on American culture and politics. (view table of contents)