Daniel Aaron, Americanist

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Commonplace Book, 1934-2012

Daniel Aaron’s intellectual autobiography

The Scrap Book

The Americanist

“The long view of civilization.” Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

American Notes: Selected Essays

“The shape of an exemplary career.” The Virginia Quarterly Review

The Inman Diary

“The most remarkable diary ever written by an American.” David Herbert Donald

The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War

“One of the greatest works of scholarship in this century.” Allen Tate. “Refine[s] our vision of the present.” Ralph Ellison

Writers on the Left

“Admirable, indispensable.” Irving Howe, The New York Times

Cincinnati: Queen City of the West, 1819-1838

“The literary grace, the historical concerns, the wealth of scholarship ...make [this book] and important addition to American urban and Middle Western published history.” Urban History

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