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Painter, Nell Irwin, Sojourner Truth - A Life, A Symbol (Norton, NY 1996)

Highly interpretive, interesting, well researched as far as I can tell.


Palmer, Beverly Wilson, ed., The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990).


Pangle, Thomas L.

Have read: The Spirit of Modern Republicanism : the Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke.

Own: Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism; a Commentary on the Spirit of the laws.


Pangle, Thomas L. ed; Palmer, Michael ed, Political Philosophy and the Human Soul : Essays in Memory of Allan Bloom, (Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1995).

RUL: JA71.P62 1995


Pangle, Thomas L.; Pangle, Lorraine Smith, The Learning of Liberty : the Educational Ideas of the American founders (Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, c1993) 

RUL:  LA206.P36 1993


Pangle, Thomas L., The Ennobling of Democracy : the Challenge of the Postmodern Age / Thomas L. Pangle. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992)

RUL: JC423.P249 1991


Pangle, Thomas L., ed; Strauss, Leo, The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism : an Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss : essays and lectures (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989)

RUL:  JA81.S756 1989


Pangle, Thomas L., The Spirit of Modern Republicanism : the Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.)

RUL: JC153.L87P36 1988

Read in September and October 1998, as we were moving to Hopatcong; was beginning to write essay, "Big Ideas in the History of the Early Republic".


Pangle, Thomas L., ed, The Roots of Political Philosophy : Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues / translated, with interpretive studies, edited by Thomas L. Pangle. ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987)

RUL: JC71.P2213 1987


Pangle, Thomas L., ed, The Laws of Plato / translated with notes and an interpretive essay by Thomas L. Pangle.(New York : Basic Books, c1980)

RUL: JC71.P2633 1980


Pangle, Thomas L.,Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism; a Commentary on the Spirit of the laws (Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1973] )

RUL: JC179.M8P35


Parton, James, et. al, Sketches of Men in Progress (New York 1870)

Cited on p32 of Gentlemen of Prop..., as a good source for James Watson Webb. A miscellany of biographical sketches?

Parton is sometimes called "the father of American biography". His works stand up well today, and his biography of Andrew Jackson is used in all modern biographies.

He is also know for extensive quoting of documents of the time (whether that is true in this case or not).

Anyone seen it and have comments? <=== Click here to answer if you wish


Perry, Bliss, ed., The Heart of Emerson's Journals (Houghton Mifflin - date of publication - ?; Copywrite 1937, Raymond Emerson).


Peterson, Merrill D., The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun (New York and Oxford, 1987):

Integrated biographies of the three men who, in the Senate, challenged Andrew Jackson's greatness and overshadowed the presidents in the years from 1837 till about 1850, around which time all three died.

KEYWORDS: ownit


Pierson, George Wilson, Tocqueville in America (Peter Smith 1969; Abridgement by Dudley C. Lunt from Toqueville and Beaumont in America.


Pintard, John, Letters from John Pintard to his daughter, Eliza Noel Pintard Davidson, 1816-1833 (New York, Printed for the New York historical society, 1940- )


Pitkin, Timothy, A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States (NY: Augustus Kelley, 1967; Orig: Hartford, Charles Hosmer, 1816)

P:$1.25+nj-tx; SBS 11/20/98

R.U.L.: HF3025.P68 (SPCOL)


Pitt, Willam, The Speeches of The Right Honourable Wm. Pitt, in the House of Commons, vol I, (NY: Kraus 1972; Orig: London 1817)

P:$1.00+nj-tx; SBS 11/20/98 (iii, iv)


Pitzer, Donald E. and Elliott, Josephine M., eds New Harmony's Fourth of July Tradition (New Harmony, Ind: Raintree Books, 1976).

(cited p312, footnote 46, Eckhardt, Fanny Wright)


Pollard, John A., John Greenleaf Whittier, Friend of Man (Boston, 1949).


Poore, Benjamin Perley, Perley's Reminiscences

Collection of short vignettes, giving an insider's view of Washington DC, mostly in the antebellum years. Often cited.


Powell, Mary G.,
The History of Old Alexandria, Virginia, from July 13, 1749 to May 24, 1861, (Richmond, William Byrd Press [1928])

NYPL: ITD (Alexandria) (Powell, M. G. History of old Alexandria)

Used by James, Anne Royall's U.S.A., as background for the City Tavern, and its keeper at the time, Horatio Clagett.


Prentiss, George Lewis, A Memoir of S.S. Prentiss, edited by his brother (NY Scribners, 1855).


Parton, James, Remini, Robert V., ed., The Presidency of Andrew Jackson

Keywords: bio:Jackson, Andrew;us;jackson-era



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