"Reading the Early Republic" focuses attention on the forgotten
dynamism of thought in the founding era. In every case, the
documents, novels, pamphlets, sermons, journals, and slave
narratives of the early American nation are richer and more
intricate than modern readers have perceived.
Rebellion, slavery, and treason--the mingled stories of the
Revolution--still haunt national thought. Robert Ferguson shows
that the legacy that made the country remains the idea of what it
is still trying to become. He cuts through the pervading nostalgia
about national beginnings to recapture the manic-depressive tones
of its first expression. He also has much to say about the
reconfiguration of charity in American life, the vital role of the
classical ideal in projecting an unthinkable continental republic,
the first manipulations of the independent American woman, and the
troubled integration of civic and commercial understandings in the
original claims of prosperity as national virtue.
"Reading the Early Republic" uses the living textual tradition
against history to prove its case. The first formative writings are
more than sacred artifacts. They remain the touchstones of the
durable promise and the problems in republican thought
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