The American Intellectual Tradition, in Two Volumes: Volume I: 1630-1865; Volume II. 1865 to the Present

xv, 467; xiii, 429 pp. Two volume set. Revised and expanded, the second edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology of many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history offers new selections from a diversity of authors; an extensive chronology connecting several hundred important books and essays with events in American and European intellectual, cultural, and political history; and updated bibliographies and headnotes. The anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranged chronologically from the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present.--rear cover