The genius of America : men whose ideas shaped our civilization.

Author: Padover, Saul Kussiel, 1905-1981.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : McGraw-Hill, [1960]

Description369 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:The American as archetype: George Washington -- The American as aristocrat: John Adams -- The American as Democrat: Thomas Jefferson -- The American as conservative: Alexander Hamilton -- The American as Republican: James Madison -- The American as agrarian: John Taylor -- The American as Federalist: John Marshall -- The American as states' righter: John C. Calhoun -- The American: Abraham Lincoln -- The American as philosopher: Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The American as anarchist: Henry David Thoreau -- The American as poet: Walt Whitman -- The American as radical: Henry George -- The American as psychologist: William James -- The American as skeptic: Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The American as pragmatist: John Dewey -- The American as nationalist: Theodore Roosevelt -- The American as liberal: Woodrow Wilson -- The American as reformer: Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliography.

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