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NOVELISTS > novelist > James Fenimore Cooper
The Americans ....
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The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.
Source: The American Democrat, On Civilization, 1838.
-- James Fenimore Cooper, (Sep 15 1789-1851), US novelist; He was the first important American novelist; wrote The Spy, 1821 and The Last of the Mohicans, 1826.