The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America - Hardcover
An analysis of American colonial history, told in twenty-four essays, is categorized under such sections as "New Englanders," "Southerners," and "Revolutionaries" and features detailed discussions on a wide range of topics including early American leaders and the impact of slavery. 40,000 first printing.
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Edmund S. Morgan has been writing for the New York Review of Books for forty years. A Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, he lives in New Haven.
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Even in his 80s, Morgan continues to be one of the wisest and most eloquent interpreters of early American history. Because we have come to expect Morgan to provide deeply insightful and original readings of the American past, this new book at first disappoints, for it consists of review essays that first appeared in the New York Review of Books. On the other hand, the 24 essays represent a Morgan miscellany and function, he notes, as a kind of intellectual autobiography, tracing the development of his scholarly career. In the earliest of these essays, on Puritan New England, Morgan measures the value of various studies of Puritanism against the classic work of his mentor, Perry Miller. Later essays reveal the brilliance of Morgan's scholarship as he examines topics ranging from Puritanism and sex (sexual pleasure was an "entitlement" of marriage, for women as well as men), witch trials and slavery to the significance of the publication of the 24-volume American National Biography (in an essay co-written with his wife). In various essays, Morgan argues that John Winthrop was America's "first great man" because he, like Washington, Franklin and Lincoln, "pursued and accomplished radical ends by conservative means" and that George Washington was "the founding father" because of his pursuit of power by honorable means. Morgan's essay on Benjamin Franklin provides an outline of his acclaimed and bestselling 2002 biography. Morgan's elegant prose and critical acumen shine brightly and remind us how deep our debt is to his illuminating readings of early American history.
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- Publication date2004
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. "This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography. . . . These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during nearly seventy years in their company," writes Edmund S. Morgan in his introduction to THE GENUINE ARTICLE, the title not only of this book but also of a remarkably insightful essay devoted to our country's first president, George Washington. While Morgan has chosen to describe Washington, a charismatic yet deeply enigmatic figure, as "the genuine article," the same term can easily be applied to Morgan himself, who has done more to shape the study of early American history than any historian since Perry Miller, whose career was tragically cut short in 1963. Assuming Miller's mantle, Morgan -- through twenty books, including THE PURITAN DILEMMA AND AMERICAN SLAVERY, AMERICAN FREEDOM, and through over one hundred essays that first appeared in professional journals and the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS -- has literally refashioned our understanding of colonial and Revolutionary history. Here, in THE GENUINE ARTICLE, his first collection of essays in several decades, Morgan presents a rich and thrilling story that begins with the arrival of the first settlers in 1607 at the doomed Jamestown colony and ends as the Founding Fathers begin the arduous task of governing a formerly rebellious and often restless people. Divided into four sections on "New Englanders," "Southerners," "Revolutionaries," and "Questions of Culture," these twenty-four essays present an extraordinary thematic range -- from "Those Sexy Puritans," an eye-opening account of the often bawdy sex lives of the Puritans, to "The Secrets of Benjamin Franklin," a model piece that would provide the framework for Morgan's best-selling biography, to an insightful essay on the divergent philosophies of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Of particular interest is Morgan's section on the American South. While Perry Miller was able, by the end ot his career, to confer a respectability on the Puritans that they had previously never had, Morgan has had a similar influence in forcing his and successive generations of historians to analyze the corrosive effect of colonial slavery on the economic and social future of the nation. Morgan dissects, engages, and grapples with other historians over their own interpretations of early America, in some cases challenging them, in others lauding them -- in all cases reanimating vanished worlds and illuminating the lives of early Americans. Viewed as a whole, THE GENUINE ARTICLE is a remarkable achievement. Seller Inventory # 000555
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. First edtion. 8vo. Cloth binding, 315 pp. including index. A passionate and unparalleled look at the lives of the American colonists by the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin. This is Morgan's first collection of essays in several decades, divided into "New Englanders," "Southerners," "Revolutionaries," and "Questions of Culture." New in new dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 014520
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