Morgan, Edmund S.
The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America
New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Table of Contents tells of twenty-four essays under headings such as "New Englanders," "Southerners," and "Revolutionaries," with chapter titles such as New Englanders: America's first great man -- Heaven can't wait -- Those sexy puritans -- Chosen people -- Subject women -- Witch-hunting -- Bewitched -- Southerners: -- Our town -- Fall of the gentry -- Big American crime -- Plantation blues -- Price of honor -- Revolutionaries: How the French lost America -- Loyal un-American --Oedipal revolution -- Secrets of Benjamin Franklin -- Don't tread on us -- Fixers -- Great political fiction -- Power to the people? -- Second American Revolution -- Genuine article -- Questions of culture: Persuading the persuaded -- Who's really who (with Marie Morgan). Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [4], 5-315 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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