Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920

by Vernon Louis Parrington

Series:Main Currents in American Thought (Collections and Selections — 1-3)

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Examines the writings of John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Tom Paine, and Thomas Jefferson

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Main Currents in American Thought, Volume 1: The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800 by Vernon Louis Parrington

Main Currents in American Thought, Volume 2: The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860 by Vernon Louis Parrington

Main Currents in American Thought, Volume 3: The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America, 1860-1920, completed to 1900 only by Vernon Louis Parrington

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