The Life of the Mind in America

The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War

Author	Perry Miller
Language	English
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Harcourt, Brace & World
Publication date	1965
Publication place	United States

The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War is a non-fiction history book by Perry Miller. It won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for History. ^{[1] [2] [3]} Miller writing about "Evangelical Basis" (Book one), "The Legal Mentality" (Book two), "Science" (Book three). ^[4] Book three was incomplete. The Life of the Mind was published posthumously.

The Evangelical Basis has generated the most influence. ^[5] The Legal Mentality has been relatively neglected. ^[6] The sublime is present through the book. The introduction was “The Sublime of American.” ^[7] Unfortunately, that was not written, because Miller was deceased before the book published. Nature against law and the law's independence are especially relevant of the second book.

References

1. Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 304–. ISBN   978-1-57356-111-2.
2. Heinz Dietrich Fischer; Erika J. Fischer (1994). American History Awards, 1917-1991: From Colonial Settlements to the Civil Rights Movement. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 229–. ISBN   978-3-598-30177-3.
3. "1966 Winners". pulitzer.org. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
4. Max Byrd, Book Review, Harvard Crimson, September 25, 1965.
5. Alfred Kazin, On Perry Miller, NY Rev. of Books (Nov 25, 1965); Clifford K. Shipton, Book Review, PMHB 266-67 (1966); Larzer Ziff, Book Review, 20 Western Hum. Rev. 166 (1966); Charles A. Barker, Book Review, 71 Am. Hist. Rev. 1056-57 (1966); Henry E. May, Perry Miller's Parrington, 35 Am. Scholar 562 (1966) (book review).
6. Lawrence Friedman, Heart against Head, 77 Yale Law Journal 1244 (1968); Stanley N. Katz, Looking Backward: The Early of American Law, 33 U. Chicago L. Rev. 867 (1966).
7. Elizabeth Miller, Foreword, The Life of the Mind at vii.