After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American CultureAn entrepreneur, a writer who wanted to depict an ideal society, a dramatist who tried to reconcile high aesthetic standards and populism, and a Connecticut Yankee who ran into the contradictions of conservatism and liberalism--each of the four men depicted in this book had a vision of what kind of society post-Revolutionary America should be. Through portraits of these bellwether figures, the prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis examines the currents that were shaping the new country. |
Contents
Premonitions and Paradoxes in the Revolutionary Era | 1 |
Premonitions An American Athens | 3 |
Paradoxes Culture and Capitalism | 23 |
Profiles | 39 |
Charles Willson Peale Portrait of the American Artist as Virtuous Entrepreneur | 41 |
Hugh Henry Brackenridge The Novelist as Reluctant Democrat | 73 |
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