Daniel Aaron, Americanist

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Commonplace Book, 1934-2012

Daniel Aaron’s intellectual autobiography

"A record of the inner observational life ... of one of the most remarkable observers of American letters and culture ever to have lived." Noah Feldman

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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