Description
Book SynopsisExamines four attempts to answer the question of national identity that Americans faced in the wake of the American Revolution. This work explores a complicated political world in which boundaries between the personal and the political were fluid and ill-defined.
Trade Review"A wonderful blend of history and literary studies.... It is impossible for me to describe adequately the elegance with which Trees has written this work.... [I]ts chief contribution is to enhance our understanding of the politics and political thought of the 1790s." - Jan Ellen Lewis, Rutgers University, Newark "This is an immensely impressive book of unusual range and balance. Trees is as much at home dealing with the private sphere and the public, as with the personal realm and the political." - Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania"
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Chapter One: Friendship 13 Chapter Two: Honor 45 Chapter Three: Virtue 75 Chapter Four: Justice 107 Conclusion: Veneration 135 Notes 147 Index 205
