4 Ergebnisse.

A biography of James Kirke Paulding, one of the first American writers to devote his career to describing America and Americans, and to social commentary and social criticism. Paulding's cause was the defence of the republic as a way of life, an economic and social system and an ethical code.

The first study of the political culture of Jackson and his compatriots.

Examines the intense conflict between financial success and moral righteousness in nineteenth-century America. This study also examines how popular writers and widely read newspapers, magazines, and books expressed social tensions between prosperity and morality.

In the troubled years leading up to the Civil War, newspapers in the North and South presented the arguments for and against slavery, debated the right to secede, and disputed the Dred Scott decision, denouncing opposing viewpoints with imagination and vigor. Although it is impossible to determine the precise effect of the newspapers on their readers, there is no question that they took the temperature of their communities and recorded the ris...