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Like the preceeding books in The Representative Americans series, The Romantics makes history human by putting tissue on the skeletal framework of names and dates. It treats people whose principal contributions fell in the first half of the nineteenth century. And while certain individuals may be unfamiliar to readers-the slaves Prince and Fed; Free Frank, a black farmer of Kentucky and Illinois; and the Lowell Girls, Lucy Lacom and Sarah Bagley-the majority of the figures studied are well-known, such as Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Horace Mann, and Catharine Beecher. Tying it all together is the prevailing spirit of American Romanticism. Visit our website for sample chapters!

About the Author :
Norman K. Risjord is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he taught for over three decades. He is the author of Chesapeake Politics, 1781-1800 and Jefferson's America, 1760-1815. He is general editor of the American Profiles series for Madison House.

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"An outstanding book by an outstanding scholar. Professor Risjord continues to produce sound scholarship in clear, muscular prose, useful to the educated layman as well as the experienced scholar. These Representative Americans volumes are especially appropriate for college classes where readers know the bare bones but not the nuances and ironies and complications of their nation's history. The Romantics hits the high spots-a few political leaders and a good many more intellectual leaders and mavericks-but it also examines unknown, ordinary folk, who are as 'representative' as the big shots in their own way. Indeed, the adventures of free blacks, slaves, factory girls, and mountain men dramatically remind the reader that history includes everyone. Above all, Risjord pictures flesh and blood men and women. The famous are given their official due in a lively fashion and also shown to be all too human with their full share of foibles. The obscure are skillfully drawn from the shadows and granted their full humanity too. Overall, this is a fine book, wide-ranging but easy to follow, enlightening, even academic, but also downright entertaining." --F. N. Boney, University of Georgia "There is much to praise in this fine book. The rich tapestry woven by Norman Risjord as he moves from frontier warrior Andrew Jackson to Lowell mill worker Lucy Larcom reminds us how turbulent, yet also how optimistic, antebellum society truly was. Students in particular will find this a most entertaining and insightful study." --Douglas R. Egerton "Once again Norman Risjord has succeeded in capturing the spirit of an era through biography. These portraits of 'representative Americans' are vivid, compelling, and above all, human." --Lynn Hudson Parsons, SUNY College at Brockport "With great literary facility, and drawing on his deep knowledge of U.S. history in the early national period, Norman Risjord offers a wonderful selection of biographical essays vividly evoking the lives of prominent and obscure Americans. While amply achieving Risjord's goal of 'making history human, ' Representative Americans: The Romantics also offers an informed and enticing introduction to this entire era of American history." --Paul Boyer, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Norman Risjord has written a most unique, and fascinating study of the Jacksonian era. By contrasting biographies of important individuals in the separate fields of politics, literature and reform he has brought a new vigor to the study of the ante-bellum period. The work demonstrates his unusual command of the age and it is superbly written. It is a splendid introduction to this dynamic and exciting era." --Robert V. Remini, University of Illinois, Chicago "The book is stylishly written and neatly compartmentalized and ultimately succeeds in conveying a real flavor of the issues that dominated the lives of Americans at this time, warts and all." --History, The Historical Association and Blackwell Publishers


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780742520820
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Height: 236 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 658 gr
  • ISBN-10: 074252082X
  • Publisher Date: 16 Oct 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Representative Americans
  • Sub Title: The Romantics
  • Width: 154 mm


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