Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... Leader ( New York , 1933 ) , p . 30 . 3 The Partisan Leader , a romance that prophesied not.
... Leader ( New York , 1933 ) , p . 30 . 3 The Partisan Leader , a romance that prophesied not.
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... leaders who failed to avoid war in 1861 were inferior to their predecessors or successors in any way susceptible of measurement . ( 4 ) their implied attack on democracy itself for casting up and then tolerating leaders who so ...
... leaders who failed to avoid war in 1861 were inferior to their predecessors or successors in any way susceptible of measurement . ( 4 ) their implied attack on democracy itself for casting up and then tolerating leaders who so ...
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... leader at the climactic moment displays the humiliated governor to Robin and looks at him as if to say , " We do this for you . The leader , says Hawthorne , " fixed his glance full upon the country youth , as the steed 130 went slowly ...
... leader at the climactic moment displays the humiliated governor to Robin and looks at him as if to say , " We do this for you . The leader , says Hawthorne , " fixed his glance full upon the country youth , as the steed 130 went slowly ...
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