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A Short Biography of Henry S. Commager

Author Name:

Henry S. Commager

Born As:

Henry Steele Commager

Other Names:

Born:

25 Oct 1902

Died:

02 Mar 1998




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Selected Works:

The Growth of the American Republic - with Samuel Eliot Morison - 1930, as Oxford History of the United States - 7th edition 1980
revisionised and abridged edition with Samuel Eliot Morison and William E Leuchtenburg published by Oxford University Press in 1980 as A Concise History of the American Republic, revision 1983

Documents of American History - 1934 and later editions through 1988
Theodore Parker: Yankee Crusader - 1936 online edition
Readings in American History - with Allan Nevins, 1939
Majority Rule and Minority Rights - 1943
The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880s - 1950

Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent - 1954 online edition
The Search for a Usable Past and Other Essays in Historiography - 1965
Freedom and Order: A Commentary on the American Political Scene - 1966
The Defeat of America: War, Presidential Power, and the National Character - 1974

Jefferson, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment - 1976
The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment - 1977, and later reprintings
Commager on Tocqueville - 1977