9780679773009
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
Alan Taylor
ISBN 13: 9780679773009
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Softcover
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An innovative work of biography, social history, and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fennimore Cooper, who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic. Taylor shows how Americans resolved their revolution through the creation of new social forms and new stories that evolved with the expansion of our frontier. of photos.
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"One of the fascinations of 'William Cooper's Town' lies in the way Alan Taylor, a Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, moves from the story of William Cooper to 'The Pioneers', showing who was who, how the stories were alike and how different, uncovering not only the novel's meaning but a fascinating story of generational relationships in what was the American West in the late 18th century."
Pauline Maier, New York Times Book Review, 10/01/1995
Review:"Cooper's remarkable life transcended his humble origins as a nearly illiterate wheelwright and his flamboyantly flawed ethics. His meteoric political career as a frontier power broker--recounted in fascinating detail by Alan Taylor...vividly encapsulated the first halting steps in the development of American democracy in the decades after the American Revolution."
Richard L. Bushman
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