Between 1775 and 1800, poets, dramatists, novelists and musicians fought to create a new literary culture in the United States that reflected the principles and intention of the American Revolution, to free America from the oligarchical cultural axioms of Europe. This book presents that story. More importantly, the book traces out how that cultural battle played out into the 19th century and is still with us today. The American Revolution was not simply a "separation" from Great Britain; it was motivated by a higher, more noble conception of the Human Identity and the sovereign nation state. Today, as our cultural crisis deepens, as degeneracy becomes the norm, and as many of our fellow citizens have lost sight of what it actually means to be an America, this work tells the story of what many of the patriots of 1776 were actually striving to accomplish.