The American Idea

The American Idea

Author: Robert Vare

Publisher: Broadway Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 690

ISBN-13: 0767926846

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Rarely has a collection of influential essays, stories, and poems so vividly captured America. Readers can see the nation through the eyes of its finest writers in this remarkable anthology.--"Chicago Tribune."


Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art;

Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art;

Author: William Harrison Ainsworth

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2015-08-21

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9781297913693

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Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty

Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty

Author: Benjamin H. Irvin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0199314594

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Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty examines the material artifacts, festivities, and rituals by which Congress endeavored not only to assert its political legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to glorify the United States and to win the allegiance of the American people. But fact, as Benjamin H. Irvin demonstrates, the "people out of doors"--including the working poor, women, loyalists, Native Americans and others not represented in Congress--vigorously contested the trappings of nationhood into which Congress had enfolded them.