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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wright, Conrad Edick. Revolutionary generation. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2005 (OCoLC)607854487 |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Conrad Edick Wright |
| ISBN: | 1558494847 9781558494848 |
| OCLC Number: | 58546518 |
| Description: | xi, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Alma mater, September 8, 1836 -- Family pride -- Cambridge College -- Apprenticing for life -- A time for choices -- Revolutionary changes -- The age of responsibility -- Party passions -- The best and the brightest -- The last great change -- American scholars, August 31, 1837 -- Appendix : life structures and generations, understanding the Harvard classes of 1771-1774. |
| Responsibility: | Conrad Edick Wright. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"This book offers a collective biography of the 204 members of the Harvard College classes of 1771 through 1774, men whose lives intersected with the War for Independence and the other formative events of the founding years of the American Republic. The names of a few of these men are still familiar, including painter John Trumbull and Congressman Fisher Ames, but this study's principal importance lies in these schoolmates' shared experiences - experiences that were also common to a much wider group of youths who reached adulthood in the 1770s."--Jacket.
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- Harvard University -- Alumni and alumnae -- Biography.
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