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Aristocracy in America : from the sketch-book of a German nobleman

Grund, Francis J. (Francis Joseph), 1804 or 1805-1863, author, Mattes, Armin, editor, Grund, Francis J. (Francis Joseph), 1804 or 1805-1863. Americans in their moral, social, and political relations

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\"Francis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of the most influential journalists in America in the three decades preceding the Civil War. He also wrote several books, including Aristocracy in America (1839), a fictional, satiric travel memoir written in response to Alexis de Tocqueville's famous Democracy in America. However, Grund's political work and life have never been analyzed in depth. In his introduction to this long out-of-print work, Armin Mattes provides a thorough account of Grund's dynamic engagement in American political life, and brings to light many of Grund's reflections on American social and political life previously published only in German. Comparing Aristocracy in America with Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Mattes shows how Grund's work can expand our understanding of the emerging democratic political culture and society in the antebellum United States\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Subject: United States Social life and customs 1783-1865. / United States Politics and government 1783-1865.
• ISBN: 9780826221568

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E165.G913 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE