Born after the Revolution, the first generation of Americans inherited a truly new world--and, with it, the task of working out the terms of Independence. Anyone who started a business, marketed a new invention, ran for office, formed an association, or wrote for publication was helping to fashion the world's first liberal society. These are the people we encounter in Inheriting the Revolution, a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who turned the new abstractions of democracy, the nation, and free enterprise into contested realities.
Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, Joyce Appleby tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society in politics, economics, reform, religion, and culture. They also had to grapple with the new distinction of free and slave labor, with all its divisive social entailments; the rout of Enlightenment rationality by the warm passions of religious awakening; the explosion of small business opportunities for young people eager to break out of their parents' colonial cocoon. Few in the nation escaped the transforming intrusiveness of these changes. Working these experiences into a vivid picture of American cultural renovation, Appleby crafts an extraordinary--and deeply affecting--account of how the first generation established its own culture, its own nation, its own identity.
The passage of social responsibility from one generation to another is always a fascinating interplay of the inherited and the novel; this book shows how, in the early nineteenth century, the very idea of generations resonated with new meaning in the United States.
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Inheriting the Revolution
The First Generation of Americans
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1
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ntro
du
ctio
n
“
P
eter
Rugg,
the
Missing
Man
”
enjoyed
the
reputation
of
being
the
most
popular
short
story
of
the
early
republic.
1
A
phantasmagoric
tale,
it
begins
when
the
title
character
sets
off
for
Concord
one
sunny,
autumn
day
in
the
year
of
the
Boston
Massacre.
Rugg
is
on
his
way
home
when
a
violent
storm
overtakes
him.
Rather
than
wait
out
the
bad
weather,
he
swears
that
he
“will
see
home
to-night,
in
spite
of
the
last
tempest,
or
may
I
never
see
home!
”
Having
aroused
the
fates
and
furies,
Rugg
is
doomed
to
traverse
the
back
roads
of
Massachusetts
in
his
horse-drawn
chaise,
startling
travel-
ers
with
his
mad
appearance
and
the
unexpected
showers
that
always
ac-
companied
him.
A
half-century
later,
Jonathan
Dunwell,
a
New
York
busi-
nessman
and
the
narrator
of
the
story,
becomes
intrigued
by
the
weird
phenomenon
he
encounters
in
his
frequent
trips
to
Boston
and
accosts
Rugg,
wresting
from
him
the
facts
about
a
trip
to
Concord
gone
awry.
Clearly
a
desperate
man,
Rugg
turns
out
to
be
an
opinionated
one
as
Table of contents
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Responding to a Revolutionary Tradition
- 3 Enterprise
- 4 Careers
- 5 Distinctions
- 6 Intimate Relations
- 7 Reform
- 8 A New National Identity
- Notes
- Index
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