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Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War
By Gura, Philip F.
- ISBN
- 9780674659544
- Publisher
- Belknap: Harvard Univ.
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Starred Review on March 1, 2017 | Social Sciences
Gura (The Life of William Apess, Pequot) offers captivating portraits of antebellum reformists George Ripley, Horace Greeley, William B. Greene, Orson Squire Fowler, Mary Gove Nichols, Henry David Thoreau, and John Brown, along with their somewhat fanciful programs for national improvement. These characters ostensibly took aim at the time's principal evils: capitalism and slavery. According to the author, they were convinced that remedies to America's moral challenges ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
