Main Currents in American Thought

Name: Main Currents in American Thought
Author: Vernon Louis Parrington

by Vernon Louis Parrington

Comprehensive intellectual history of American thought from colonial era through early twentieth century

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Vernon Louis Parrington

Vernon Louis Parrington wrote Main Currents in American Thought, the first comprehensive liberal interpretation of American literary and intellectual history. His unfinished three-volume work won the Pulitzer Prize and defined a generation of American literary scholarship.

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