The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, Books One Through Three

“Perry Miller, like all great historians, in Reinhold Niebuhr’s words, “was both scientist and artist.” That combination is nowhere better seen in his work than in this posthumous work. For years Miller had been engaged in a vast enterprise that would continue the history of American mind begun with his definitive two-volume account of the intellectual life of New England.

From manuscript in progress at his death, virtually two-thirds of the planned first volume of The Life of the Mind in America was found in finished form. It includes ‘Book One, The Evangelical Basis’, ‘Book Two, The Legal Mentality’, and ‘Book Three, Science: Theoretical and Applied’.

Winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in History, The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War is a permanent contribution to American letters.

“Perry Miller was the great intellectual historian of our generation, and this magnificent torso of a book is his legacy and monument.” — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.