AS WE WERE LIFE IN AMERICAN 1814 -- by Gaillard Hunt

Foreward by Jack Larkin
American Classics

"In 1914, Gaillard Hunt, well known in Washington circles as an able public servant and editor of James Madison's writings in nine volumes, was asked to write a social history of Americans as they were in 1814-- to celebrate 100 years of friendship between the American and British peoples.  The resulting book, publishes as Life In American One Hundred Years Ago, is a delightful survey of American society on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.

Conscious of the World War then raging  in Europe, Hunt sought to recreate for anxious Americans the optimism of an earlier era, answering many questions about their forebears: What were ordinary Americans concerned with in 1814?  What was the position of women?  What were the conditions of life -- in American medicine, transportation, education, politics, leisure?

Reprinted here with an illuminating foreward by Jack Larkin, Hunt's account remains a lively and enduring portrait of American on the threshold of greatness."

CONDITION

This book is in used but good condition.  The cover and pages are clean.  There are no dog eared pages.