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In this engaging biography of Edward Kent, a leading citizen of Bangor, Maine, David Gold reveals the quotidian texture of American public culture in the nineteenth century. Kent's significance lies in his achievement of a life devoted to what the novelist George Eliot called the 'unmemorable acts' that contribute to 'the growing good of the world.' -- Andrew Cayton, Miami University

In this engaging biography of Edward Kent, a leading citizen of Bangor, Maine, David Gold reveals the quotidian texture of American public culture in the nineteenth century. Kent's significance lies in his achievement of a life devoted to what the novelist George Eliot called the 'unmemorable acts' that contribute to 'the growing good of the world.' -- Andrew Cayton, Miami University The partisan divisions of the Jacksonian era, the rise of the Republican Party in the 1850s, and the nature of the nineteenth-century legal system continue to puzzle American historians. What has long been deemed necessary are state and biographical studies that explore these themes in a local context. David Gold has produced such a work by this well-researched, learned, and intelligent examination of the political and legal career of Whig Edward Kent of Maine. Our field would be well served by more books based on Gold's model. -- Mitchell Snay, Denison University

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David M. Gold is an attorney with the Ohio Legislative Service Commission. He received his law degree and doctorate in history at The Ohio State University and is the author of The Shaping of Nineteenth-Century Law: John Appleton and Responsible Individualism.  

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