Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... roles , and designed the stage on which those roles were played . When the setting was the golden age , the role that Cooper assigned to his own generation was the role of the child . There should be no surprise about the fact that the ...
... roles , and designed the stage on which those roles were played . When the setting was the golden age , the role that Cooper assigned to his own generation was the role of the child . There should be no surprise about the fact that the ...
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... roles but morality . In this family the founders would assume the role of the fathers , but beyond that the conservatives would interpret the word and assign the roles . Marvin Meyers has shown that Jacksonians , too , were highly ...
... roles but morality . In this family the founders would assume the role of the fathers , but beyond that the conservatives would interpret the word and assign the roles . Marvin Meyers has shown that Jacksonians , too , were highly ...
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... role in history . 27 " Let us endeavor to comprehend in all its magnitude , and to feel in all its importance , the part assigned to us in the great drama of human affairs , " said 28 Daniel Webster . " The great revolutionary names ...
... role in history . 27 " Let us endeavor to comprehend in all its magnitude , and to feel in all its importance , the part assigned to us in the great drama of human affairs , " said 28 Daniel Webster . " The great revolutionary names ...
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