William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Alan Taylor
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Alan Taylor

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Overview

William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
 
William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land speculator and U.S. congressman in what had until lately been the wilderness of upstate New York, but his high-handed style of governing resulted in his fall from power and political disgrace.  His son James Fenimore Cooper became one of this country’s first popular novelists with a book, The Pioneers, that tried to come to terms with his father’s failure and imaginatively reclaim the estate he had lost.
 
In William Cooper’s Town, Alan Taylor dramatizes the class between gentility and democracy that was one of the principal consequences of the American Revolution, a struggle that was waged both at the polls and on the pages of our national literature.  Taylor shows how Americans resolved their revolution through the creation of new social reforms and new stories that evolved with the expansion of our frontier.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780679773009
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/27/1996
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 576
Sales rank: 1,155,640
Product dimensions: 5.24(w) x 7.97(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Born and raised in Maine, Alan Taylor teaches American and Canadian history at the University of Virginia. His books include The Divided Ground, Writing Early American History, American Colonies, and William Cooper’s Town, which won the Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes for American history. He also serves as a contributing editor to The New Republic.
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