PHILIP F. GURA is the William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His many books include Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel and American Transcendentalism: A History, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

This work has too many virtues to name. . . . In sparkling writing, Liberty or Justice for All? retells the American past in a fresh study through its controlling ideas as embodied in particular settings that Philip F. Gura shows are fascinating in their own right.

PHILIP F. GURA is the William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His many books include Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel and American Transcendentalism: A History, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

This work has too many virtues to name. . . . In sparkling writing, Liberty or Justice for All? retells the American past in a fresh study through its controlling ideas as embodied in particular settings that Philip F. Gura shows are fascinating in their own right.

PHILIP F. GURA is the William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His many books include Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel and American Transcendentalism: A History, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

This work has too many virtues to name. . . . In sparkling writing, Liberty or Justice for All? retells the American past in a fresh study through its controlling ideas as embodied in particular settings that Philip F. Gura shows are fascinating in their own right.