Puritan's Progress: An Informal Account of Certain Puritans & Their Descendants from the American Revolution to the Present Time, Their Manners & Customs, Their Virtues & Vices. Together, with Some Possibly Forgotten Episodes in the Development of American Social & Economic Life During the Last One Hundred & Fifty YearsC. Scribner's Sons, 1931 - 477 Seiten From the time of the stern (but were they so stern?) Puritans to the time of the post-war flapper, American life - that is, the actual everyday habits, beliefs, superstitions, recreations, and ambitions of plain, sometimes honest and formerly God-fearing Americans - has rapidly and repeatedly changed. Each decade and era has been different, and picturesquely different. The author has wittily, shrewdly, and brilliantly evoked these former American ways and their influence (if any) upon the Americans of 1931. This book is a continuous flow of facts and anecdotes, retrieved from all sorts of out-of-the-way material, from records of Mr. Train's family, from many years of reading. There are many chuckles in the book, and much surprising information. Here the author tells how Americans have lived from generation to generation, how these generations have differed from, or resembled, each other.--Provided by publisher. |
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CHAPTER PAGE I AN AUTHOR IN SEARCH OF A GRANDFATHER | 3 |
HANDS ACROSS THE SEA OF TIME | 14 |
A PURITAN PATRIARCH | 26 |
Urheberrecht | |
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