The epic of America / by James Truslow Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

John Penman Wood Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

History.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

United States--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Political science.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, pages, 2 leaves, 3 unnumbered pages-433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, [Mass.] : Little, Brown, and Co., 1931.

Summary:

The Epic of America paints a sweeping picture of the diverse past that has created Americaʹs national story. In this important narrative, James Truslow Adams reviews how the ordinary American has matured over time in outlook, character, and opinion. Adams is interested in the whole of American history, how it began, and what it represented in the first half of the twentieth century. He traces the historical origins of the American concept of "bigger and better," attitudes toward business, the American Dream, and other characteristics generally considered "typically American." Ever since America became an independent nation, each generation has seen an uprising of its citizens to save the American Dream from forces seeking to overwhelm and dispel it.

Contents:

I. From Time Immemorial

II. The Return of Quetzalcoatl. 1. The Men of Destiny

- 2. A Civilization Established

III. America Secedes from the Empire

IV. The Nation Finds Itself

V. America Secedes from the Old World

VI. The Sun Rises in the West

VII. The North Begins to Hustle

VIII. Manifest Destiny Lays a Golden Egg

IX. Brothers' Blood

X. The End of the Frontier

XI. The Flag Outruns the Constitution

XII. The Age of the Dinosaurs

XIII. America Revisits the Old World.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscirbed "To [Wally]- Xmas 1931- from K.[G. Kelly]"

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has patterned bookmark laid in at p. 146.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has newspaper clipping from December 1, 1931 laid in at p. 240.

Other Format:

Online version: Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949. Epic of America.

OCLC:

779523