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Article: James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2009
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James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years. By Wayne Franklin. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xxxiv, 708. $40.00.)
This year's much anticipated publication of the first volume of Wayne Franklin's biography of James Fenimore Cooper, covering the author's life to the eve of his six-year sojourn to Europe in 1826, marks an annus mirabilis for students of Cooper and early American culture alike. Enlisting for the first time the full range of the extant Cooper archive, Franklin's authoritative biography offers a richly crafted narrative of Cooper's life and times while providing a major revaluation of his literary and historical significance.
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