Many great people have told history. Stories of how we progressed from the small colonies to the country we are today have been passed down to every generation. We were given the idea of our triumphs, struggles, tragedies and adventures of history through story telling, and no- one tells of the adventure of history like James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne. They wrote with such a passion of history entwined with adventure that it swept …
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…offer a doublevision, so to speak, purposing reconciling freedom and restraint as well. Cooper was better at writing symbolic history than romance. It was Cooper who created the American Hero myth that is still a big part of our literary world today. While Cooper portrayed very little historical fact , or historical fact in his view depends on how you feel towards his writings. Nevertheless, Cooper remains one of the best historical writers of his century.