The Refinement of America

The Refinement of AmericaBy: Richard Lyman Bushman This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning, and sentimental novels, Richard L. Bushman shows how a set of values originating in aristocratic court culture gradually permeated almost every stratum of American society

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At twenty-six

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Welcome to Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder

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The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers

Prepare to roll around the floor laughing with the snot-inducingly brilliant The Funny Life of Sharks

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this entertaining book is filled with activities that give young writers lots of opportunities to practise creative writing in a variety of different ways

Unfazed by absurdity

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