A Novel Of Manners Set In The Drawing Rooms, Ballrooms, And Wall Street Offices In 1830s New York, Dramatizing Conflicts That We Are Still Grappling With Nearly Two Hundred Years Later.within Months Of Publishing Homeward Bound, James Fenimore Cooper Continued That Story In A Second, Stand-alone Novel, Home As Found. One Of The Most Important Of His Long Career, Home As Found Is A Novel Of Manners In Which Cooper Satirized Wall Street Speculation, Jingoism, The Penny Press, And High Society, Writing Boisterously And With A Sharp But Critical Eye About A Nation In Transition. He Revealed Follies And Peculiarities Of The Young Nation, But Did So With A Hope That The Advancing Forces Of Democracy Would Not Get Turned Aside By Greed And Insular Nationalism.