The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War is a nonfiction history book by Perry Miller. It won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for History.[1][2][3] Miller writing about "Evangelical Basis" (Book one), "The Legal Mentality" (Book two), "Science" (Book three).[4] Book three was incomplete. The Life of the Mind was published posthumously.
The Evangelical Basis has generated the most influence.[5] The Legal Mentality has been relatively neglected.[6] The sublime is present through the book. The introduction was “The Sublime of American.”[7] Unfortunately, that was not written, because Miller was deceased before the book published. Nature against law and the law's independence are especially relevant of the second book.
^Max Byrd, Book Review, Harvard Crimson, September 25, 1965.
^Alfred Kazin, On Perry Miller, NY Rev. of Books (Nov 25, 1965); Clifford K. Shipton, Book Review, PMHB 266-67 (1966); Larzer Ziff, Book Review, 20 Western Hum. Rev. 166 (1966); Charles A. Barker, Book Review, 71 Am. Hist. Rev. 1056-57 (1966); Henry E. May, Perry Miller's Parrington, 35 Am. Scholar 562 (1966) (book review).