The story of America : essays on origins
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The story of America : essays on origins
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- The story of America : essays on origins
- Title remainder
- essays on origins
- Statement of responsibility
- Jill Lepore
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this book, the author investigates American origin stories, from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address, in order to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. It excavates the origins of everything from the paper ballot and the Constitution to the I.O.U. and the dictionary. It presents readings of Benjamin Franklin's Way to Wealth, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, and Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as well as histories of lesser-known genres, including biographies of presidents, novels of immigrants, and accounts of the Depression. From past to present, the author argues, Americans have wrestled with the idea of democracy by telling stories; here, she offers both a history of origin stories and a meditation on storytelling itself
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E173
- LC item number
- .L47 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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