This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for
taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious
pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from
mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning, and
sentimental novels, Richard L. Bushman shows how a set of values
originating in aristocratic court culture gradually permeated
almost every stratum of American society and served to prevent the
hardening of class consciousness. A work of immense and richly
nuanced learning, "The Refinement of America" newly illuminates
every facet of both our artifacts and our values.
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