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Describe your latest book/project/work. I've been studying the life and work of photographer W. Eugene Smith for 13 years. My first book (Dream... Continue »
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    The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965

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William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

by Alan Taylor

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Publisher Comments:

An innovative work of biography, social history, and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fennimore Cooper, who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic. Taylor shows how Americans resolved their revolution through the creation of new social forms and new stories that evolved with the expansion of our frontier. of photos.

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"Marvelous....Taylor's intellectual grasp never fails."--The New Yorker
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679773009
Subtitle:
Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
Author:
Taylor, Alan
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
History
Subject:
United States - State & Local
Subject:
United States - Revolutionary War
Subject:
United States - 19th Century
Subject:
State
Subject:
Cooper, james fenimore, 1789-1851
Subject:
Cooper, James Fenimore
Subject:
Cooperstown (N.Y.) History.
Subject:
United States - State & Local - General
Copyright:
1996
Edition Description:
1st Vintage books ed.
Publication Date:
May 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
576
Dimensions:
8.25x4.92x1.16 in. 1.25 lbs.
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