The manliest man : Samuel G. Howe and the contours of nineteenth-century American reform / James W. Trent Jr.

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012], ©2012.

ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A respectable, if ordinary boyhood" -- "Greece! Greece! -- I thought no land -- could ever look more sweetly" -- "The Cadmus of the blind" -- A phrenologist and a superintendent -- Private lives, public causes -- For free soil and free men -- War, freedmen, and Crete -- Santo Domingo : the perpetual summer.