The American Heritage History of the Making of the NationAmerican Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1968 - United States - 416 pages |
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Page 51
... turned on the new century , and with a frankness that would be their undoing , continued to assert that upper - class Amer- icans had both a duty and a right to rule their social and economic inferiors . But the merchants , lawyers ...
... turned on the new century , and with a frankness that would be their undoing , continued to assert that upper - class Amer- icans had both a duty and a right to rule their social and economic inferiors . But the merchants , lawyers ...
Page 154
... turned from Pope's cou- plets to the rhythms and modes of Byron , Ossian , and Moore . Not until the appearance of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper did the United States suc- ceed in producing indigenous literary figures who ...
... turned from Pope's cou- plets to the rhythms and modes of Byron , Ossian , and Moore . Not until the appearance of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper did the United States suc- ceed in producing indigenous literary figures who ...
Page 308
... turned newspaperman . With a thousand dollars he had saved up and a thousand he had bor- rowed he launched his own newspaper . The Tribune's circulation reached eleven thousand in two months , and within two years Greeley raised the ...
... turned newspaperman . With a thousand dollars he had saved up and a thousand he had bor- rowed he launched his own newspaper . The Tribune's circulation reached eleven thousand in two months , and within two years Greeley raised the ...
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