William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. Beginning with Columbus's discovery of the Indies and moving on through Sir Walter Raleigh, Cotton Mather, Daniel Boone, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Aaron Burr, Edgar Allan Poe, and Abraham Lincoln, Williams found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning and configurations of character. He brought a poetic imagination to the task of reconstructing a live tradition for Americans, and what results is one of the finest works of prose to have been penned by any writer of the twentieth century.
- ISBN10 0811202305
- ISBN13 9780811202305
- Publish Date 1 February 1956
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 17 December 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format Paperback
- Language English