William Cooper's town: power and persuasion on the frontier of the early American republic

Alan Taylor

A.A. Knopf, Sep 26, 1995 - Biography & Autobiography - 549 pages

rize-winning story of a frontier village in the early American Republic. With 16 pages of photographs, 7 maps, and 17 tables.

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Review: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

User Review  - Vam Norrison - Goodreads

I picked this up after reading Taylor's "American Colonies" and James Fenimore Cooper's "Pioneers" in school. The depth of Taylor's research and his ability to navigate between real events and their ...

Review: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

User Review  - Eddy Allen - Goodreads

An innovative work of biography, social history, and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fennimore Cooper ...

Contents

• Introduction: 3
• One FRIEND BILLY: 13
• Two VISIONS: 30

About the author

Alan Shaw Taylor was born in 1955 in Portland, Maine. He graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1977. He went on to earn his PhD. from Brandeis University in 1986. He has become a professor of history at the University of California. He is best known for his contributions to microhistory which he demonstrated in his Pulitzer Prize winning history of William Cooper and the settlement of Cooperstown, New York. In this work, Alan Taylor uses court records, land records, letters and diaries to reconstruct the economic, political and socila history of New England and the settlement of New York. He is also a regular contributor of book reviews and essays to The New Republic. His books include William Cooper's Town: Power & Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for history & the Bancroft Prize in American History.

Bibliographic information

• Title: William Cooper's town: power and persuasion on the frontier of the early American republic
• Author: Alan Taylor
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: A.A. Knopf, 1995
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 22, 2008
• Length: 549 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers; Biography & Autobiography / General; History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA); Literary Criticism / American / General