Main currents in American thought An interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920
of American Life_, Vol. VIII, New York, 1927); E. P. Oberholtzer,
_History of the United States since the Civil War_ (3 vols., New York,
1917-1926); Frederick L. Paxson, _Recent History of the United States_
(Boston and New York, c. 1921).
For economic backgrounds see Harold Underwood Faulkner, _American
Economic History_ (New York and London, 1924); Gustavus Meyers,
_History of Great American Fortunes_ (3 vols., Chicago, 1910); Robert
Irving Warshaw, _Jay Gould: The Story of a Fortune_ (New York, 1928);
and for the part played by railroads see John P. Davis, _The Union
Pacific Railway_ (New York, 1894); C. E. Russell, _Stories of Great
Railroads_ (Chicago, 1912); and Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and Henry
Adams, _Chapters of Erie and Other Essays_ (Boston, 1871).
For political corruption see Don Carlos Seitz, _The Dreadful Decade_
(Indianapolis, 1926); and Denis Tilden Lynch, _“Boss” Tweed: The Story
of a Grim Generation_ (New York, 1927).
For journalism see Allan Nevins, _The Evening Post: A Century of
Journalism_ (New York, c. 1922); and Frank M. O’Brien, _The Story of
the Sun_ (New York, c. 1918).
General Ulysses S. Grant, _Personal Memoirs_ (2 vols., New York,
1885-1886). For biography see W. E. Woodward, _Meet General Grant_ (New
York, 1928).
Jay Cooke. See E. P. Oberholtzer, _Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil
War_ (2 vols. Philadelphia, c. 1907).
Charles A. Dana, _Recollections of the Civil War_ (New York, 1902); J.
H. Wilson, _Life of Charles A. Dana_ (New York, 1907).
II. The Culture of the Seventies. For valuable sidelights on culture
in the decade see Constance Mayfield Rourke, _Trumpets of Jubilee_
(New York, c. 1927); Paxton Hibben, _Henry Ward Beecher: An American
Portrait_ (New York, c. 1927); Horace Greeley, _Recollections of a Busy
Life_ (New York, 1868); James Parton, _The Life of Horace Greeley_
(Boston, c. 1896); Lewis Mumford, _The Golden Day: A Study in American
Experience and Culture_ (New York, 1926); and his _Sticks and Stones, A
Study of American Architecture and Civilization_ (New York, c. 1924).
For history of literature see Fred Lewis Pattee, _A History of American
Literature since 1870_ (New York, 1915); his _Sidelights on American
Literature_ (New York, 1922); his _The Development of the American
Short Story_ (New York and London, 1923); and Carl Van Doren, _The
American Novel_ (New York, 1921).
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, _Prose Works_ (7 vols., Boston, 1897); _The
Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ (2 vols., Boston, c. 1907). For his
life see Ferris Greenslet, _The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ (Boston
and New York, 1908).
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Ward (Phelps), _The Silent Partner_ (Boston, c.
1899); _A Singular Life_ (Boston and New York, 1899); _Chapters from a
Life_ (Boston and New York, 1896).
Sarah Orne Jewett. _A Country Doctor_ (Boston and New York, c. 1884);
_A Native of Winby and Other Tales_ (Boston and New York, c. 1893);
_Deephaven_ (Boston and New York, 1894). _Tales of New England_ (Boston
and New York, 1894); _The Life of Nancy_ (Boston and New York, 1895);
_The Queen’s Twin and Other Stories_ (Boston and New York, 1899); _The
Country of Pointed Firs_ (Boston and New York, c. 1910). For her life
see _The Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett_ (Boston and New York, 1911).
Mrs. Mary E. (Wilkins) Freeman, _A Humble Romance, and Other Stories_
(New York, 1887); _The New England Nun, and Other Stories_ (New
York, 1891); _The Pot of Gold, and Other Stories_ (Boston, c. 1892);
_Pembroke; a Novel_ (New York, c. 1894); _People of Our Neighborhood_
(New York, 1901); _The Portion of Labor_ (New York, c. 1901). _Young
Lucretia, and Other Stories_ (New York, 1903); _By the Light of the
Soul_ (New York and London, 1907).
Walt Whitman, _Leaves of Grass_ (Inclusive edition edited by Emory
Holloway, Garden City, New York, 1927); _The Complete Prose Works of
Walt Whitman_ (New York, 1898); _The Half-breed and Other Stories_
(New York, 1927); _Autobiographia: or, the Story of a Life_ (New York,
1892); _The Gathering of Forces_ (New York and London, 1920); and _The
Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman_ (2 vols., Garden City,
New York, 1921). For Whitman’s life see Horace Traubel, _With Walt
Whitman in Camden_ (3 vols., New York, 1908-1914); Emory Holloway,
_Whitman_ (New York, 1926); John Addington Symonds, _Walt Whitman: a
Study_ (London, 1893); Léon Bazalgette, _Walt Whitman, the Man and his
Work_ (Garden City, New York, 1920); John Burroughs, _Whitman: a Study_
(Boston and New York, c. 1924); Bliss Perry, _Walt Whitman: his Life
and Work_ (Boston and New York, 1906); and J. Johnston, M. D., and J.
W. Wallace, _Visits to Walt Whitman_ (New York, 1918).
For critical studies of his work see Norman Foerster, _American
Criticism_, pp. 157-222 (New York, 1928); Basil De Selincourt, _Walt
Whitman; a Critical Study_ (London, 1914); Horace Traubel (ed.), _In re
Walt Whitman_ (Philadelphia, 1893).
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), _The Writings of Mark Twain_ (25
vols., New York and London, c. 1910-1911); _The Mysterious Stranger,
and Other Stories_ (New York and London, 1922); _What is Man?_ (New
York, 1917).
For his life see _Mark Twain’s Autobiography_ (New York and London,
1924); Albert Bigelow Paine, _Mark Twain, a Biography_ (3 vols., New
York, c. 1912); Van Wyck Brooks, _The Ordeal of Mark Twain_ (New York,
c. 1920); W. D. Howells, _My Mark Twain_ (New York, c. 1910).
III. Changing Theory. For a general history of economic theory see,
Charles Gide and Charles Rist, _A History of Economic Doctrines from
the Time of the Physiocrats to the Present Day_ (Authorized translation
from the second revised and augmented edition of 1913, Boston, New
York, Chicago, 1913); _The Trend of Economics_ (Edited by R. G.
Tugwell, New York, 1924).
For material covered in this section see Francis Wayland, _Elements of
Political Economy_ (New York, 1837); Henry Charles Carey, _Principles
of Social Science_ (3 vols., Philadelphia, 1858-1860); his _The Harmony
of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial_ (2nd ed.,
New York, 1852); and his _Miscellaneous Works_ (Philadelphia, 1875).
Francis A. Walker, _The Wages Question, a Treatise on Wages and the
Wages Class_ (New York, 1891); his _Land and Its Rent_ (Boston, 1891);
and his _Political Economy_ (New York, 1888).
For a general treatment of political theories see William A. Dunning,
_A History of Political Theories from Rousseau to Spencer_ (New York,
1920); Charles E. Merriam, _History of American Political Theories_
(New York, 1920); and his _American Political Ideas: Studies in the
Development of American Political Thought, 1865-1917_ (New York, 1920).
Theodore Dwight Woolsey, _Political Science: or, the State
Theoretically and Practically Considered_ (New York, 1900); and his
_Communism and Socialism in Their History and Theory_ (New York, 1894).
John W. Burgess. _Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law_
(2 vols., Boston and London, 1896-1898); and his _The Sanctity of the
Law; Wherein Does It Consist?_ (Boston and New York, c. 1927).
J. Allen Smith, _The Growth and Decadence of Constitutional Government_
(New York, 1930) is an invaluable aid to those wishing to get
Parrington’s viewpoint in political theory.
Henry George, _The Writings of Henry George_ (Memorial edition, 10
vols., New York, 1898-1900). See particularly _Progress and Poverty_
(Vols. I and II), and Henry George, Jr., _The Life of Henry George_
(Vol. X).
Henry D. Lloyd, _Wealth Against Commonwealth_ (New York, c. 1894);
_Lords of Industry_ (New York and London, 1910); _Men the Social
Creator_ (New York, 1906); _Strike of Millionaires Against Miners,
or the Story of Spring Valley, with an Open Letter to Millionaires_
(Chicago, 1890). For his life see Caroline Augusta Lloyd, _Henry
Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903_, (2 vols., New York and London, 1912).
(Parrington had intended to discuss Lloyd.)
IV. The Beginnings of Criticism. Wendell Phillips, _Speeches, Lectures,
and Letters_ (2 vols., Boston, 1891-1892). For his life see Carlos
Martyn, _Wendell Phillips, the Agitator_ (Revised ed., New York, 1890);
and Charles Edward Russell, _The Story of Wendell Phillips_ (Chicago,
c. 1914).
George William Curtis, _Nile Notes of a Howadji_ (New York, 1851);
_Trumps_ (New York, 1861); _Potiphar Papers_ (New York, 1854); _Prue
and I_ (New York, n. d.); _Orations and Addresses_ (3 vols., New York,
1894); _From the Easy Chair_ (3 vols., New York, 1894-1902); _Early
Letters of George William Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm and
Concord_ (New York and London, 1898). For his life see Edward Cary,
_George William Curtis_ (Boston and New York, 1894).
Edwin Lawrence Godkin, _Reflections and Comments, 1865-1895_ (New York,
1895); _Unforeseen Tendencies of Democracy_ (Boston, 1893); _Problems
of Modern Democracy; Political and Economic Essays_ (Third ed., New
York, 1898). For his life see, _The Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence
Godkin_ (Ed. by Rollo Ogden, 2 vols., New York and London, 1907). See
also Gustav Pollak, _The Nation, Fifty Years of American Idealism: the
New York Nation, 1865-1915_ (New York, 1915).
The political novel: Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, _The Gilded
Age_ (2 vols., New York, 1873); Henry Adams, _Democracy_ (New York,
1880); F. Marion Crawford, _An American Politician_ (New York, 1884).
See also Albion W. Tourgée, _A Fool’s Errand_ (New York, 1880).
The economic novel: John Hay, _The Bread-Winners_ (New York, 1883); H.
F. Keenan, _The Moneymakers_ (New York, 1885).
The sociological novel: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, _The Mammon of
Unrighteousness_ (New York, 1891); his _The Golden Calf_ (New York,
1892); and his _Social Strugglers_ (New York, 1893); Robert Grant,
_Unleavened Bread_ (New York, 1900); Samuel Merwin and H. K. Webster,
_Calumet K_ (New York, 1901); and their _Short Line War_ (New York,
1899). Francis Churchill Williams, _J. Develin-Boss_ (New York, 1901);
Elliot Flower, _The Spoilsman_ (Boston, 1903); Winston Churchill,
_Coniston_ (New York, 1907); and his _Mr. Crewe’s Career_ (New York,
1908); Will Payne, _Mr. Salt_ (Boston and New York, 1903); and his _The
Money Captain_ (New York, 1898).
For general accounts see Carl Van Doren, _The American Novel_ (New
York, 1921); Fred Lewis Pattee, _A History of American Literature
since 1870_ (New York, 1915); John Curtis Underwood, _Literature
and Insurgency_ (New York, 1914); and W. D. Howells, _Criticism and
Fiction_ (New York, 1891).
For material dealing with Henry Adams and John Hay see William Roscoe
Thayer, _The Life and Letters of John Hay_ (2 vols., Boston and New
York, c. 1915). See also the bibliography on Henry Adams, Part II,
section II.
Book I: Part II
I. Disintegration and Reintegration. For a general survey of
philosophical thought during the period see W. H. Hudson, _Philosophies
Ancient and Modern_ (London, 1908); Woodbridge Riley, _American Thought
from Puritanism to Pragmatism_ (New York, 1915); William Archibald
Dunning, _A History of Political Theories from Rousseau to Spencer_
(New York, 1920).
Condorcet, Isidore, August Marie François Xavier, _Ouvres_ (Paris,
1847). See also _A General View of Positivism_ (Translated by H. J.
Bridges, London, c. 1908).
Herbert Spencer, _Works_ (18 vols., New York, 1915); see also his
_Illustrations of Universal Progress; a Series of Discussions_ (New
York, 1890).
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, _The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the
Nineteenth Century_ (New York and London, 1900); and his _History of
Creation_ (2 vols., New York, 1914).
John Fiske, _American Political Ideas, Viewed from the Standpoint of
Universal History_ (New York, 1899); _Darwinism and Other Essays_
(New ed. rev. and enl., Boston, 1892); _The Destiny of Man, Viewed