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Tables of Contents for Representative Americans
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction: American Romanticism
xi
Part 1: The Political Theater: Andrew Jackson versus John Quincy Adams
The Soldier and the Diplomat: Fortuitous Allies
3
28
Contrasting Styles of Presidency
31
20
Old Man Eloquent
51
24
Part 2: Literary Romantics
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher-Poet
75
26
Margaret Fuller: The Romantic as Feminist
101
24
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Romance and the Reality of Domesticity
125
28
Part 3: Impulse to Reform
Horace Mann: ``In a republic, ignorance is a crime''
153
26
Frances Wright: The Cost of Social Change
179
26
Catharine Beecher: The Limits of Reform
205
18
Theodore and Angelina Grimke Weld: The Antislavery Dilemma
223
28
Part 4: (Un)Common Lives
Prince and Fed: Varieties of Slave Experience
251
22
Lucy Larcom and Sarah Bagley, Lowell Girls
273
16
Free Frank, Subtle Entrepreneur
289
20
Part 5: Of Men and Nature
Osceola: The Tragedy of Indian Removal
309
26
Jedediah Strong Smith, Mountain Man
335
20
John C. Fremont, Destiny's Agent
355
28
Index
383
18
About the Author
401