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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828, by Walter A. McDougall (HarperCollins, 656 pp., $29.95)
THIS provocative book is the first of three projected volumes in Walter A. McDougall's new history of America. At the heart of Freedom Just Around the Corner is the "hustler": the driven, restless self-promoter, not always scrupulous about means but often cherishing noble ends in his heart. While some of America's hustlers are, like the swindling trickster of Herman Melville's novel The Confidence-Man, bad guys out to bamboozle the world, other Americans, McDougall writes, are "hustlers in the positive sense: builders, doers, go-getters, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Con men & heroes.(Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American...