{"product_id":"2940158990243","title":"Domestic Manners of the Americans","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIn 1832, three years before Alexis de Tocqueville published \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e, the English novelist Frances Trollope released \u003ci\u003eDomestic Manners of the Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, an eye-opening record of her travels in the young republic. Expecting a Utopia of \"justice and liberty for all,\" she is shocked to discover the contradictions at the heart of the American character, especially when it comes to their treatment of slaves and Native Americans: \"You will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty,\" Trollope writes, \"and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.\"\u003cbr\u003eTrollope's biting critique became an international sensation, hailed for its fearlessness and humor and decried for its slanderous audacity. (Her critics derogatorily called her Fanny Trollope.) Yet, as Mark Twain remarked, \"She was merely telling the truth and this indignant nation knew it.\" Today, \u003ci\u003eDomestic Manners of the Americans\u003c\/i\u003e remains a prophetic diagnosis of American thought and culture, and a masterpiece of nineteenth-century travel writing. Now published as an ebook with an introduction by acclaimed travel author Sara Wheeler, this classic work offers modern American readers a fascinating re-introduction to themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDomestic Manners of the Americans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I am convinced that there is no writer who has so well and so accurately (I need not add entertainingly) described America\"--Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the great pioneer exercises in transatlantic disparagement; its influence lasted deep into the later 19th century\"--\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Trollope] was merely telling the truth and this indignant nation knew it. She was painting a state of things which did not disappear at once. It lasted to well along in my youth, and I remember it.\"--Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e\"Ever since its publication, Americans have loved to hate Domestic Manners of the Americans. It is still quoted by American journalists, precisely because the book remains as perceptive--and funny--as ever\"--\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This remarkable woman became one of the most prolific and popular female writers of the century... She was consistently original\"--\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Restless Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104280789232,"sku":"2940158990243","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158990243_p0.jpg?v=1764123874","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158990243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}