Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur

While Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur does not think America is perfect, in his 1792 Letters from an American Farmer he finds many more praiseworthy things about America than about his native...

The principal purpose of de Crèvecœur's essay "What is an American" is to describe how European immigrants become Americans and emphasize the advantages of doing so. This is a process de Crèvecœur...

In his minute, detailed descriptions of life in colonial America, de Crèvecoeur makes general observations about humanity as a whole. Initially, these observations are generally positive, as the...