Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

by Daniel Walker Howe (Contributor)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $19.59

  Many early Americans sought the opportunity to make something of themselves -not only to choose an occupation but to fulfill their potential, to engage in self-improvement. This book reconstructs their project from the time of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin to that of Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Fuller, and Frederick Douglass.