The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
by:
Perry Miller (author)
Three major sections of a great historian's last work: I. The Evangelical Basis; II. The Legal Mentality; III. Science-Theoretical and Applied. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Three major sections of a great historian's last work: I. The Evangelical Basis; II. The Legal Mentality; III. Science-Theoretical and Applied. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156519908 (0156519909)
ASIN: 0156519909
Publish date: 1970-03-25
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
Perry Miller is one of those names I felt obligated to read. I was pretty sure, going in, that it wasn’t going to be the most fun I ever had reading for this list. I wasn’t mistaken, but there were some interesting things in this, even by my own admittedly “outside the box” standards.