The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America
by
James B. Salazar
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff,” has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American...