A cultural history of the American Revolution painting, music, literature, and the theatre in the Colonies and the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-1789

Main Author:	Silverman, Kenneth.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : T. Y. Crowell, c1976.
Subjects:	Arts, American > History. United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Miscellanea. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Miscellanea United States > History > Confederation, 1783-1789 > Miscellanea.

Physical Description:	xvii, 699 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	0690010796
Author Notes:	Kenneth Eugene Silverman was born in Manhattan, New York on February 5, 1936. He received a bachelor's degree in English in 1956 and a master's degree in English in 1958 from Columbia University. He taught for a year at the University of Wyoming before receiving a doctorate in English in 1964 from Columbia University. He was a specialist in Colonial American literature and spent his entire academic career at New York University, retiring in 2001. After editing the anthology Colonial American Poetry, he wrote Timothy Dwight and A Cultural History of the American Revolution. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather received the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in 1985. His other biographies included Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance, Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse, Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage, and Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss, American Self-Liberator, Europe's Eclipsing Sensation, World's Handcuff King and Prison Breaker - Nothing on Earth Can Hold Houdini a Prisoner!!! He died from complications of a respiratory illness on July 7, 2017 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography)