- Social life and customs, Frontier and pioneer life, Nature, Nonfiction
This lively book reveals a little known culture that predates the Pilgrims and has remained true to the earliest version of the American Dream: an egalitarian, self-reliant republic.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Colin Woodard
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 378
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Viking, Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670033249
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