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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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The Annual American Catalog
Author: The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Papers and Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Library Association Held at ...
Author: American Library Association. MeetingPublisher:
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Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Barriers and Opportunities for America's Young Black Men
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and FamiliesPublisher:
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Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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American Youth Act. Hearings Before a Subcommittee... on S. 1463...March 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, 1938. (75th Cong., 3d Sess.)
Author: United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on education and LaborPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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American Youth Act; ....
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
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Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Young America
Author: Edward L. WidmerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195140621
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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This fascinating study examines the meteoric career of a vigorous intellectual movement rising out of the Age of Jackson. As Americans argued over their destiny in the decades preceding the Civil War, an outspoken new generation of "ultra-democratic" writers entered the fray, staking out positions on politics, literature, art, and any other territory they could annex. They called themselves Young America--and they proclaimed a "Manifest Destiny" to push back frontiers in every category of achievement. Their swagger found a natural home in New York City, already bursting at the seams and ready to take on the world. Young America's mouthpiece was the Democratic Review, a highly influential magazine funded by the Democratic Party and edited by the brash and charismatic John O'Sullivan. The Review offered a fresh voice in political journalism, and sponsored young writers like Hawthorne and Whitman early in their careers. Melville, too, was influenced by Young America, and provided a running commentary on its many excesses. Despite brilliant promise, the movement fell apart in the 1850s, leaving its original leaders troubled over the darker destiny they had ushered in. Their ambitious generation had failed to rewrite history as promised. Instead, their perpetual agitation helped set the stage for the Civil War. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City is without question the most complete examination of this captivating and original movement. It also provides the first published biography of its leader, John O'Sullivan, one of America's great rhetoricians. Edward L. Widmer enriches his unique volume by offering a new theory of Manifest Destiny as part of a broader movement of intellectual expansion in nineteenth-century America.
Young America
Author: Mark A. LausePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The National Reform Association (NRA) was an antebellum land reform movement inspired by the shared dream of a future shaped by egalitarian homesteads. Mark A. Lause's Young America argues that it was these working people's interest in equitable access to the country's most obvious asset--land--that led them to advocate a federal homestead act granting land to the landless, state legislation to prohibit the foreclosure of family farms, and antimonopolistic limitations on land ownership. Rooting the movement in contemporary economic structures and social ideology, Young America examines this urban and working-class "agrarianism," demonstrating how the political preoccupations of this movement transformed socialism by drawing its adherents from communitarian preoccupations into political action. The alliance of the NRA's land reformers and radical abolitionists led unprecedented numbers to petition Congress and established the foundations of what became the new Republican Party, promising "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men."
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