| The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams Contributor(s): Benítez, Paula (Editor), Adams, Brooks (Author) |
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ISBN: 1974317889 ISBN-13: 9781974317882 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $20.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6" W x 9" (0.98 lbs) 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I wrote this little volume more than thirty years ago, since when I have hardly opened it. Therefore I now read it almost as if it were written by another man, and I find to my relief that, on the whole, I think rather better of it than I did when I published it. Indeed, as a criticism of what were then the accepted views of Massachusetts history, as expounded by her most authoritative historians, I see nothing in it to retract or even to modify. I do, however, somewhat regret the rather acrimonious tone which I occasionally adopted when speaking of the more conservative section of the clergy. Not that I think that the Mathers, for example, and their like, did not deserve all, or, indeed, more than all I ever said or thought of them, but because I conceive that equally effective strictures might have been conveyed in urbaner language; and, as I age, I shrink from anything akin to invective, even in what amounts to controversy. |