Star-spangled Eden

"A historian's vivid portrait of the expanding American nation based on the accounts of eight 19th-century British travelers who famously explored its geographic and cultural landscape." "In this illuminating volume of social and political history, author James C. Simmons revisits the America encountered not only by Dickens and Wilde but also by Frances Trollope, whose acid tome on barbarous Cincinnati made her a London literary sensation in 1832; by the celebrated English actress Fanny Kemble, whose two years on a Georgia plantation turned her into a passionate abolitionist; by George Ruxton…