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Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in rural New Jersey, he was never quite satisfied with the agricultural life he seemed destined to inherit. Fithian longed for something more- to improve himself in a revolutionary world that was making upward mobility possible. Fithian is best known for the diary that he wrote in 1773-74 while working as a tutor at...
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