The Flowering of New England

This is a work of such learning and grace that it transcends the literary history it nominally addresses, and becomes a historical high point in its own right. Only Paul Rosenfeld, Edmund Wilson, Lewis Mumford, and the power-duo of Curti & Parrington even come close to Brooks' accomplishment. As

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for American culture of the past half-century, perhaps a pathologist is needed more than a historian.

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