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William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic is a history book written by American historian Alan Taylor, published by Vintage in August 1996. It profiles the life of William Cooper , father of novelist James Fenimore Cooper , on the frontier of upstate New York . [ 1 ]
The Cooper family holdings were all gone by 1817. In 1852, a village was named Cooper's Falls north of De Kalb. James stayed in the area, and his son William grew up in De Kalb and was a carpenter. The existing De Kalb Historical Society building was built by the judge's nephew, William, and some of his descendants may still live in the area.
Before going to the University of Virginia, Taylor taught previously at the University of California, Davis [3] and Boston University.. Taylor is best known for his contributions to microhistory, exemplified in his William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1996).
Alan Taylor, 1996 for William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic and 2014 for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 [48] Don E. Fehrenbacher completed The Impending Crisis by David Potter, for which Potter posthumously won the 1977 prize, and won the 1979 prize himself for The ...
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) Poetry: The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham (The Ecco Press) Drama: Rent by Jonathan Larson (Rob Weisbach Books/William Morrow) Music: Lilacs by George Walker (MMB Music)
Otsego Hall was a house in Cooperstown, New York, United States, built by William Cooper, founder of the town. Construction started in 1796 and was completed by 1799 in the Federal style. For many years, it was the manor house of Cooper's landed estate, and was one of the largest private residences in central New York. Cooper had moved his ...
Lyman H. Butterfield Judge William Cooper (1754-1809): A Sketch of his Character and Accomplishment, October, 1949. Lyman H. Butterfield Cooper's Inheritance: The Otsego Country and its Founders, October, 1954. Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
When Cooper's father Judge William Cooper settled in what is now Otsego County, New York in the mid-1780s, Shipman lived alone in a small cabin in the hills south of the village of Cooperstown, a squatter on the land of Cooper's neighbor John Christopher Hartwick.