num_pages: 320
description:  "In establishing American independence, the pen and the press had a merit equal to that of the sword." So said David Ramsay in his History of the American Revolution (1789). His assessment is confirmed in full and rich detail in this broad survey of American literary effort during the Revolutionary years.
language: English
title: American Literature, 1764–1789: The Revolutionary Years
titlecomplete: American Literature, 1764–1789: The Revolutionary Years
ratings_count: 1
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press