by RichardBell (Author)
Though suicide is an individual act, Richard Bell reveals its broad social implications in early America. From Revolution to Reconstruction, everyone--parents, newspapermen, ministers and abolitionists alike--debated the meaning of suicide as a portent of danger or of possibility in a new nation struggling to define itself and its power.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 02 Mar 2012
ISBN 10: 0674063724
ISBN 13: 9780674063723