In the American Grain (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Carlos Williams
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Historical narratives and essays
- Time of Work: The tenth century to the 1860’s
- Setting: The Americas
- Principal Characters: Eric the Red, Christopher Columbus, Hernando Cortez, Juan Ponce de Leon, Hernando de Soto, Sir Walter Raleigh, Samuel de Champlain, Thomas Morton, Cotton Mather, Pere Sebastian Rasles, Daniel Boone, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, Jacataqua, Aaron Burr, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Native Americans or American Indians, American Revolution, Civil War, Presidents, Historiography, Exploration or explorers, Conquistadors
- Locales: South America, North America
History, to paraphrase Corinthians, is many things to many men. It is the record of what really happened and also the story of what men in later times have believed really happened. It is the story of what men thought and felt and did under the pressure and crisis of decisive action. It is concerned with the noble, the foolish, the violent, the base. It is the careful untangling of political, social, and economic motives and forces in the national experience. It is the unvarnished record of fact and it is also the romantic dream of something men have believed in and died for. It is a...
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