The Life of the Mind in America

History book by Perry Miller

The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War

Author| Perry Miller
Language| English
Genre| Non-fiction
Publisher| Harcourt, Brace & World

Publication date

| 1965
Publication place| United States

The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War is a non-fiction history book by Perry Miller. It won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for History.[1][2][3] Miller writing about "Evangelical Basis" (Book one), "The Legal Mentality" (Book two), "Science" (Book three).[4] Book three was incomplete. The Life of the Mind was published posthumously.

The Evangelical Basis has generated the most influence.[5] The Legal Mentality has been relatively neglected.[6] The sublime is present through the book. The introduction was “The Sublime of American.”[7] Unfortunately, that was not written, because Miller was deceased before the book published. Nature against law and the law's independence are especially relevant of the second book.

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1. ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 304–. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2.
2. ^ Heinz Dietrich Fischer; Erika J. Fischer (1994). American History Awards, 1917-1991: From Colonial Settlements to the Civil Rights Movement. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 229–. ISBN 978-3-598-30177-3.
3. ^ "1966 Winners". pulitzer.org. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
4. ^ Max Byrd, Book Review, Harvard Crimson, September 25, 1965.
5. ^ Alfred Kazin, On Perry Miller, NY Rev. of Books (Nov 25, 1965); Clifford K. Shipton, Book Review, PMHB 266-67 (1966); Larzer Ziff, Book Review, 20 Western Hum. Rev. 166 (1966); Charles A. Barker, Book Review, 71 Am. Hist. Rev. 1056-57 (1966); Henry E. May, Perry Miller's Parrington, 35 Am. Scholar 562 (1966) (book review).
6. ^ Lawrence Friedman, Heart against Head, 77 Yale Law Journal 1244 (1968); Stanley N. Katz, Looking Backward: The Early of American Law, 33 U. Chicago L. Rev. 867 (1966).
7. ^ Elizabeth Miller, Foreword, The Life of the Mind at vii.

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Pulitzer Prize for History

1917–1919|

* With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand (1917)
* A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 by James Ford Rhodes (1918)

1920–1939|

* The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith (1920)
* The Victory at Sea by William Sims and Burton J. Hendrick (1921)
* The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams (1922)
* The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren (1923)
* The American Revolution by Charles Howard McIlwain (1924)
* History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson (1925)
* A History of the United States by Edward Channing (1926)
* Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis (1927)
* Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington (1928)
* The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 by Fred Albert Shannon (1929)
* The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne (1930)
* The Coming of the War, 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt (1931)
* My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing (1932)
* The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner (1933)
* The People's Choice by Herbert Agar (1934)
* The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews (1935)
* A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin (1936)
* The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (1937)
* The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 by Paul Herman Buck (1938)
* A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott (1939)

1940–1959|

* Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg (1940)
* The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen (1941)
* Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 by Margaret Leech (1942)
* Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes (1943)
* The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti (1944)
* Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal (1945)
* The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1946)
* Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III (1947)
* Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto (1948)
* The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols (1949)
* Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (1950)
* The Old Northwest by R. Carlyle Buley (1951)
* The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin (1952)
* The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield (1953)
* A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (1954)
* Great River by Paul Horgan (1955)
* The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter (1956)
* Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan (1957)
* Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond (1958)
* The Republican Era, 1869–1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider (1959)

1960–1979|

* In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (1960)
* Between War and Peace by Herbert Feis (1961)
* The Triumphant Empire by Lawrence H. Gipson (1962)
* Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green (1963)
* Puritan Village by Sumner Chilton Powell (1964)
* The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (1965)
* The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller (1966)
* Exploration and Empire by William H. Goetzmann (1967)
* The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (1968)
* Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard Levy (1969)
* Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson (1970)
* Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns (1971)
* Neither Black nor White by Carl N. Degler (1972)
* People of Paradox by Michael Kammen (1973)
* The Americans by Daniel J. Boorstin (1974)
* Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone (1975)
* Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan (1976)
* The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 by David M. Potter (completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher; 1977)
* The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1978)
* The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher (1979)

1980–1999|

* Been in the Storm So Long by Leon Litwack (1980)
* American Education by Lawrence A. Cremin (1981)
* Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward (1982)
* The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 by Rhys Isaac (1983)
* Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw (1985)
* ...The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall (1986)
* Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn (1987)
* The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce (1988)
* Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson (1989)
* Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch (1989)
* In Our Image by Stanley Karnow (1990)
* A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1991)
* The Fate of Liberty by Mark E. Neely Jr. (1992)
* The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood (1993)
* No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1995)
* William Cooper's Town by Alan Taylor (1996)
* Original Meanings by Jack N. Rakove (1997)
* Summer for the Gods by Edward J. Larson (1998)
* Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (1999)

2000–2021|

* Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy (2000)
* Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis (2001)
* The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand (2002)
* An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson (2003)
* A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn (2004)
* Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (2005)
* Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky (2006)
* The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (2007)
* What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (2008)
* The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed (2009)
* Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (2010)
* The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner (2011)
* Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (2012)
* Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall (2013)
* The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor (2014)
* Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn (2015)
* Custer's Trials by T. J. Stiles (2016)
* Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson (2017)
* The Gulf by Jack E. Davis (2018)
* Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (2019)
* Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel (2020)
* Franchise by Marcia Chatelain (2021)
* Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace / Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer (2022)
* Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie (2023)
* No Right to an Honest Living by Jacqueline Jones (2024)
* Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal / Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black

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