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The revolution after the Revolution
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19950928
Author:Michael Kenney, Globe Staff
WILLIAM COOPER'S TOWN
Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American
Republic
By Alan Taylor, Knopf, 549 pp., illustrated, $35
Cooperstown, N.Y., is now virtually synonymous with the Baseball Hall of Fame, but before it became that, it was the thinly disguised Templeton, the location of James Fenimore Cooper's novel "The Pioneers." And before that, it was the town created out of the Mohawk Valley wilderness by Cooper's father, William.
The William Cooper who emerges in Alan Taylor's "William Cooper's Town," an absorbing study of the politics and economics of land ...
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