How the Sun Made a Promise and Kept It: A Canadian Indian Myth

by Janet Kobrin and Margery Bernstein

Throughout Men and Manners in America, Thomas Hamilton (1789–1842) describes with scathing honesty, and a sometimes sarcastic wit, the political and social structures of the newly independent United States. Hamilton journeyed to America in 1830, determined to write a conclusive and impartial account of its democracy. On his return, however, he was desperately aware that this impartiality had produced writings with the potential to deeply offend. His...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684137704
• ISBN13: 9780684137704
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.