Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-250) and index
Contents:
Introduction: Clockwise America -- Prologue: Articulating Independence -- Circa 1800: Expanding Horizons -- Ideas, Individuals, and Issues -- Jefferson's Visions -- The Peales: Painting and Science -- Noah Webster and American Language -- Circa 1850: Apex and Apogee -- Paradoxes of Tension and Calm -- The Painters' Illuminations: Lane, Bingham, and Church -- The Writers' Renaissance: Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman -- The Architect's Abstractions: Robert Mills -- Circa 1900: Disorientation -- Memoirs, Music, and Meditations -- Inner Sight: Saint-Gaudens, Homer, Peto, and Eakins -- The Self as History and Literature: Henry Adams -- The New Century's New Energies -- Epilogue: Circa 2000