Through portraits of four figures -- Charles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah Webster -- Joseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its frustrations.

An entrepreneur, a writer who wanted to depict an ideal society, a dramatist who tried to reconcile high aesthetic standards and populism, and a Connecticut Yankee who ran into the contradictions of conservatism and liberalism -- each of the four men depicted in this book had a vision of what kind of society post-Revolutionary America should be. Through portraits of these bellwether figures, the prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis examines the currents that were shaping the new country.

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• HistoryAmericasUnited States19th Century
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• HistoryUnited States19th Century

• Publication Date: March 17, 2002
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• Print Length: 270 Pages
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