Representative Americans: The Romantics

by Norman K. Risjord

Book Overview

Like the preceeding books in The Representative Americans series, The Romantics makes history human by putting tissue on the skeletal framework of names and dates. Risjord uses a biographical approach to make the past more concrete and vivid, to recover a heritage that todayOs reader can feel and experience. The Romantics treats people whose principal contributions fell in the first half of the nineteenth century, though several of those studied lived...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742520838
• ISBN13: 9780742520837
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Representative Americans: The Romantics

The book arrived in a timely manner and was in good condition. I recommend this book and all of the Representative Americans books, they are a very interesting way to learn the history of the US. The author is wonderful in the way he describes in detail the characters that made this country what it is today.