Author: George WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Washington's Farewell Address
Author: George WashingtonThe Telegrapher
Author: Poetry Wars
Author: Colin WellsPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812294521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
During America's founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary "wars" against political leaders, journalists, and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs appeared regularly in newspapers (and as pamphlets and broadsides), commenting on political issues and controversies and satirizing leaders like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Drawing on hundreds of individual poems—including many that are frequently overlooked—Poetry Wars reconstructs the world of literary-political struggle as it unfolded between the Stamp Act crisis and the War of 1812. Colin Wells argues that political verse from this period was a unique literary form that derived its cultural importance from its capacity to respond to, and contest the meaning of, other printed texts—from official documents and political speeches to newspaper articles and rival political poems. First arising during the Revolution as a strategy for subverting the authority of royal proclamations and congressional declarations, poetic warfare became a ubiquitous part of early national print culture. Poets representing the emerging Federalist and Republican parties sought to wrest control of political narratives unfolding in the press by engaging in literary battles. Tracing the parallel histories of the first party system and the rise and eventual decline of political verse, Poetry Wars shows how poetic warfare lent urgency to policy debates and contributed to a dynamic in which partisans came to regard each other as threats to the republic's survival. Breathing new life into this episode of literary-political history, Wells offers detailed interpretations of scores of individual poems, references hundreds of others, and identifies numerous terms and tactics of the period's verse warfare.
The Postal Record
Author: Poems, on Various Subjects, Religious, Moral, Sentimental and Humorous
Author: William RayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Good Housekeeping Magazine
Author: Divided We Stand
Author: Andrew E. BuschPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153814154X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Through pandemic, protests, and polarization, Americans went to the polls in 2020, one of the most contentious elections in American history. Continuing an R&L tradition now entering its fourth decade, Divided We Stand book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, as well as congressional and state elections. From the nominating process to the insurrection designed to stop the ratification of the electoral college vote, Andrew E. Busch and John J. Pitney Jr. revisit the campaigns and results through the short lens of politics today and the long lens of American political history. With its keen insights into the issues and events that drove the 2020 elections, Divided We Stand: The 2020 Elections and American Politics will be an invaluable resource for students and all political observers seeking to understand a historic election that will continue to resonate throughout American politics for many years to come.
Hutchinson's Washington and Georgetown Directory
Author: Annals of Cleveland--1818-1935
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 8: 1863-1864
Author: Calvin FletcherPublisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871950251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Calvin Fletcher, born in Vermont in 1798, came to Indiana from Ohio in 1821, and in the next forty-five years made a fortune, raised eleven children, and was a pillar of the community. This pioneer Indianapolis lawyer, banker, and philanthropist kept a diary for most of his long life, and in it he recorded both the growth of his family and his community. Whether complaining, criticizing, observing shrewdly, or agonizing, Fletcher emerges as both a complex and unforgettable human being. Each of the set's nine volumes has a preface, chronology, and index. Volume nine includes a cumulative index.