The Nation Takes Shape: A Review
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Author's Point of View
In the book The Nation Takes Shape, by Marcus Cunliffe, the author
has one main point of view, that he expands on throughout the entire novel.
That point of view concerns the first half-century of life under the newly
formed government, under the constitution. He talks about ....
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.... was marked by only eight or ten lighthouses; in 1839 by two
hundred and fifty. Harbors had been improved, rivers and lakes rendered
more navigable, roads and public buildings constructed. From a mere seventy
five post offices, scattered bout the Union, the number had soared to over
twelve thousand. There were now twenty five hundred miles of canals,
though none had existed while Washington was in office; and the railroads “
beginning only ten or twelve years ago, are alread ....
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