In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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... force of the incongruity is underlined by the final sentence , in which Adams reveals that the poverty of Washing- ton social life added even further to Jefferson's force . The richness of this example suggests the value of the his ...
... force of the incongruity is underlined by the final sentence , in which Adams reveals that the poverty of Washing- ton social life added even further to Jefferson's force . The richness of this example suggests the value of the his ...
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... force . Oscar Handlin's social history , The Uprooted , which is de- signed to portray and to evaluate the experience of nineteenth- and early twentieth - century immigrants who came to this coun- try from Europe , adopts the similar ...
... force . Oscar Handlin's social history , The Uprooted , which is de- signed to portray and to evaluate the experience of nineteenth- and early twentieth - century immigrants who came to this coun- try from Europe , adopts the similar ...
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... force us to see a pattern of objectionable behavior ? Actually , the Harvard inci- dents have been the crucial ones in the portrayal of Mather's boyhood , and I suspect that they form the basis for the ironic judgments of the earlier ...
... force us to see a pattern of objectionable behavior ? Actually , the Harvard inci- dents have been the crucial ones in the portrayal of Mather's boyhood , and I suspect that they form the basis for the ironic judgments of the earlier ...
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