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Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great
conversations"--dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen
wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In
nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De
Crevecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright
new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis
reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming
ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology
as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as
fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic
theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville,
Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their
continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William
Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.
An insightful biography of Florence's famous son
A New York Times Notable Book
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