James Kirke Paulding: The Last Republican

by Lorman A. Ratner

Book Overview

For many decades after the American Revolution, the image of the Republic shaped people's thinking and influenced events. Yet the simple republic and a growing, increasingly complex, capitalist America represented a clear paradox in American thinking. James Kirke Paulding was at one pole of that paradox. The first American writer to devote his career to describing America and Americans, to social commentary and social criticism, Paulding came to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313285500
• ISBN13: 9780313285509
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"