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History had not been kind to an American hero in the Paper War, Robert Walsh Jr. of Philadelphia. Walsh (1784–1859), a leading Philadelphia scholar, journalist, editor, and diplomat, did not survive the process of historical sifting and his accomplishments have faded from memory. By the second quarter of the twentieth century, Walsh’s reputation had sunk into ‘utter oblivion’. Respected by Thomas Jefferson as ‘one of the two best writers in America’ and designated by John Quincy Adams as ‘the first internationally recognized American author’, Walsh did not even receive an entry in the recent twenty-four-volume American National Biography.2 |
