Main currents in American thought
Main Currents in American Thought is Vernon Louis Parrington's history of American ideas from the Puritans to the First World War, published in three volumes between 1927 and 1930; the first two won the Pulitzer Prize for history. This edition contains all three: The Colonial Mind, from Puritan theocracy through the Revolution to the Constitution; The Romantic Revolution in America, covering the South, the Middle States and New England before the Civil War; and the unfinished Beginnings of Critical Realism, with its chapters on the Gilded Age and on novelists from Howells to Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis. Parrington reads literature as the record of a long contest between Jeffersonian liberalism and the interests of property, and says so plainly in his foreword. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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