1834 J. FENIMORE-COOPER. A Letter to His Countrymen. Pro-American Manifesto - First Edition. Pentecostal National Geographic Society

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1834 J. FENIMORE-COOPER. A Letter to His Countrymen. Pro-American Manifesto - First Edition. Pentecostal National Geographic SocietyA very smartly preserved first edition of J. Fenimore Cooper's [1789 1851] pro American manifesto. The work, well received in 1834, was a passionate call to Americans to embrace their uniquely American identity, or, to what we would think of as American Exceptionalism. Fenimore Cooper had just returned form Europe, and it was a revelation. He now saw it clear; America had ceased being itself, had become smooth, no longer embracing its rugged