Reviews
Buel's Joel Barlow is the first biography in two generations, and the best. No earlier biographer has given nearly as detailed and rich a portrait of Barlow's perhaps singularly expansive role in the cultural life, commerce, politics, and intrigue of the age of revolution.
Thoroughly researched and well writen, Buel's work is a refreshing addition to the scholarship on the defining era of the US. A must for any historian of the early republic, Joel Barlow conveys the American spirit of persevering through difficult times while remaining truly a humanitarian. Essential.
Buel's work... is admirable in scope.
The luminous strengths of this biography are the new facts and sources that Buel elucidates as well as their contextualization within the historical period that Barlow lived.
Barlow deserves fresh biographical treatment, and no one is better qualified than Buel to do the job. His book will certainly take its place among the most important and authoritative biographies on the Founders.
Book Details
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Beginnings
2. Ambitious Goals
3. Uncharted Waters
4. Dead Ends
5. Literary Recognition
6. Land Fever
7. Disgrace
8. Revolutionary Adventurer
9. The Terror
10. Commercial
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Beginnings
2. Ambitious Goals
3. Uncharted Waters
4. Dead Ends
5. Literary Recognition
6. Land Fever
7. Disgrace
8. Revolutionary Adventurer
9. The Terror
10. Commercial Interlude
11. Mission to Algiers
12. Franco-American Crisis
13. Republican Prophet
14. Responding to France's Apostasy
15. Mixed Reception
16. Washington Insider
17. Europe Redux
18. Finale
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index