Download or read book American Radical and Reform Writers written by Hester Lee Furey and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's special status as the 1st modern country intentionally created by citizens rather than by rulers fired writers and composers from the disenfranchised classes with a sense of entitlement to have their voices heard. They felt an obligation to persuade others that the society's unifying institutions should be changed to improve the quality of common life. The large percentage of American writers concerned with social change shaped the course of literary history the US.