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The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
AuthorPerry Miller
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherHarcourt, Brace & World
Publication date
1965
Publication placeUnited States

The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War is a nonfiction history book by Perry Miller. It won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for History.[1][2][3] Miller writing about "Evangelical Basis" (Book one), "The Legal Mentality" (Book two), "Science" (Book three).[4] Book three was incomplete. The Life of the Mind was published posthumously.

The Evangelical Basis has generated the most influence.[5] The Legal Mentality has been relatively neglected.[6] The sublime is present through the book. The introduction was “The Sublime of American.”[7] Unfortunately, that was not written, because Miller was deceased before the book published. Nature against law and the law's independence are especially relevant of the second book.

References

  1. ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 304–. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2.
  2. ^ Heinz Dietrich Fischer; Erika J. Fischer (1994). American History Awards, 1917-1991: From Colonial Settlements to the Civil Rights Movement. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 229–. ISBN 978-3-598-30177-3.
  3. ^ "1966 Winners". pulitzer.org. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  4. ^ Max Byrd, Book Review, Harvard Crimson, September 25, 1965.
  5. ^ Alfred Kazin, On Perry Miller, NY Rev. of Books (Nov 25, 1965); Clifford K. Shipton, Book Review, PMHB 266-67 (1966); Larzer Ziff, Book Review, 20 Western Hum. Rev. 166 (1966); Charles A. Barker, Book Review, 71 Am. Hist. Rev. 1056-57 (1966); Henry E. May, Perry Miller's Parrington, 35 Am. Scholar 562 (1966) (book review).
  6. ^ Lawrence Friedman, Heart against Head, 77 Yale Law Journal 1244 (1968); Stanley N. Katz, Looking Backward: The Early of American Law, 33 U. Chicago L. Rev. 867 (1966).
  7. ^ Elizabeth Miller, Foreword, The Life of the Mind at vii.


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