| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Book Review

Republic of Letters: The American Intellectual Community, 1776–1865. By Gilman M. Ostrander. (Madison: Madison House, 1999. xvi, 379 pp. $35.95, ISBN 0-945612-63-X.)

Gilman M. Ostrander's Republic of Letters traces high culture from independence through the Reconstruction. In fact, the work's 325 pages encompass an even broader sweep when including the epilogue on the founding of the Academy of Arts and Letters in the twentieth century. 1

Completed before his death in 1986, Republic of Letters represents Ostrander's final project. Madison House and S. K. Johannesen, Ostrander's colleague at the University of Waterloo and the author of the foreword, should be commended for their efforts to see the book through to press. . . .

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