Perhaps no other American writer stands in greater need of a major reevaluation than Cooper. This is the first treatment of Cooper’s life to be based on full access to his family papers.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE: From Manhattan to Paris -- TWO: London and the Alps -- THREE: Italian Skies -- FOUR: Imaginary Politics -- FIVE: Republican Principles -- SIX: ...

The concise and consistent format makes it easy and quick to read." —Doody Review Services, on an earlier volume in the Just the Facts series This concise, yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for certification and ...

With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words.

Kent Ryden does not deny that the natural landscape of New England is shaped by many centuries of human manipulation, but he also takes the view that nature is everywhere, close to home as well as in more remote wilderness, in the city and ...

Sage, storyteller, and wit, Washington Irving created such staples of American fiction as the stories “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” He earned his preeminence in early American literature with the masterpieces ...

Pirates and princesses, morticians, moms and man-beasts, spacemen and psychos all have a stake in Bill's future ... and those are the good guys. This is not how he planned to spend his summer vacation.