TY - BOOK AU - Bryant,Arthur ED - Sir George Watson foundation for American history, literature and institutions TI - The American ideal PY - 1936/// CY - London, New York PB - Longmans, Green and Co. KW - United States KW - Biography N1 - "In another form the studies that appear in this book were given at the request of the Sulgrave manor board as the Watson foundation lectures in the fall of 1935. I have expanded and recast them to meet the requirements of prose."--Pref; Bibliography: p. viii-ix; Introductory: 'The fairest country that a man might see'.--Thomas Jefferson.--Abraham Lincoln.--Emerson and Whitman.--Theodore Roosevelt.--Walter Page.--Two American poets of the twentieth century [Alan Seeger and Vachel Lindsay] ER -