xii, 330 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Preface -- Beginnings -- Forging Traditions: James Russell Lowell -- John Brown's War -- The Battle of the Hundred Pines: Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Dueling Visions: Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray -- Reconstructions: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Jr. -- James and Annie Fields: The Business of Hospitality -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Tests the Magazine -- Battle of the Books -- Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and a Changing Magazine -- William Dean Howells: Democracy at Work -- John Greenleaf Whittier's Seventieth Birthday -- Bret Harte to the Lions -- Straddling The Atlantic: Henry James -- Clarence King, Scholar-Adventurer -- The Gilded Eighties -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Guardian at the Gate -- In the Wake of Louis Agassiz -- A Magazine in Decline and Ascension -- From the Far East to Mars: Lafcadio Hearn and Percival Lowell -- Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois -- Progressive Politics under Walter Hines Page -- From Sea to Shining Sea -- A State of Uncertainty -- Ellery Sedgwick: Politics and Poets -- A Window on the War: Atlantic Writers and World War I -- America's War -- The Turbulent Twenties, I -- -- The Turbulent Twenties, II -- Across the Decades

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