cover image William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

Alan Taylor. Vintage Books USA, $20 (576pp) ISBN 978-0-679-77300-9

Taylor's account of politician William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. (Sept.)