| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship. By Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 239 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3164-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5853-0.)

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan's Men of Letters in the Early Republic demonstrates the tensions among political engagement, commercial interests, and intellectual culture. With the valorization of independent citizen-soldiers and enterprising merchants, did the new nation need intellectual labor? Could such labor be perceived as sufficiently manly? How might literary communities promote a virtuous and humane republic? Through three detailed case studies, Kaplan argues that college-educated men of the early republic modeled "a different kind of citizen" (p. 4).

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