Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City
by Edward L. Widmer
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This study examines the rise and subsequent disintegration of a US literary-political movement of the 1840s. "Young America" found a mouthpiece in "The Democratic Review", a magazine which had sponsored such writers as Hawthorne and Whitman.Tags
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Ted Widmer is a Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York. He writes actively about American history in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, where he helped create the Disunion feature about the Civil War.
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- Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 974.7 — History & geography History of North America Northeastern United States (New England and Middle Atlantic states) New York
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- F128.44 .W58 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history New York
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