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      Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography

      David S. Reynolds

      This comprehensive, original portrait of the life and work of one of America’s greatest poets–set in the social, cultural, and political context of his time–considers the full range of writings…

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      John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

      David S. Reynolds

      This brilliant biography by a prize-winning cultural historian brings to life the controversial antislavery martyr who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history.

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      A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman

      This study combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Walt Whitman’s diverse contexts.

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      A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman

      This study combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Walt Whitman’s diverse contexts.

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      Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times

      David S. Reynolds

      Now an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln’s Dilemma, airing February 18, 2022.

      One of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year | A Washington Post Notable Book |…

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      Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America

      David S. Reynolds

      A fascinating look at the cultural roots, political impact, and enduring legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s revolutionary bestseller.

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      Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America

      David S. Reynolds

      Reynolds takes a fascinating look at the cultural roots, political impact, and enduring legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s revolutionary bestseller.

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      Above the American Renaissance: David S. Reynolds and the Spiritual Imagination in American Literary Studies

      Takes David S. Reynolds’s classic study Beneath the American Renaissance as a model and a provocation to consider how language and concepts broadly defined as spiritual are essential to understanding…

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      Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

      Walt Whitman

      Features a great American poem. This book includes an afterword by Whitman authority David Reynolds, in which he discusses the 1855 edition, in its social and cultural contexts. It also…

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      Lincoln’s Selected Writings

      Abraham Lincoln

      Bancroft-Prize winning scholar David S. Reynolds introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings-from earliest days through to his last.

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      Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson

      David S Reynolds (City University of New York Graduate Center)

      The Bancroft Prize-winning author offers a fascinating history of Jacksonian America. Waking Giant captures the turbulence of a democracy caught in the throes of the slavery controversy, the rise of…

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      The Quaker City: Or, the Monks of Monk Hall - A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime

      George Lippard

      The Quaker City is an expose of social corruption, personal debauchery and the sexual exploitation of women in the antebellum Philadelphia. The Monks of the Monk Hall illuminates urban America…

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      The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum

      Mamoru Iga

      Japanese society is frequently held up to the Western world as a model of harmony and efficiency, but the price it pays tends to be overlooked. In a searching analysis…

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      Walt Whitman

      David S. Reynolds (Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and American Studies, Baruch College and the Graduate School of CUNY)

      Walt Whitman is one of the first volumes in the Lives and Legacies series on notable figures inspired by the Very Short Introductions series. Award winning author, David Reynolds, offers…

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      Venus in Boston and Other Tales of Nineteenth-century City Life

      George Thompson

      This volume reprints three short works by George Thompson, one of antebellum America’s most successful authors of sensational fiction. There are two novels, Venus in Boston and City Crimes…

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      Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

      David S. Reynolds (Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies, Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies, CUNY Graduate Center)

      The aware-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings…

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      Transatlantic Sensations

      John Cyril Barton,Kristin N. Huston,a Preface by David S. Reynolds

      Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. It also looks at the…

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      Transatlantic Sensations

      John Cyril Barton,Kristin N. Huston,a Preface by David S. Reynolds

      Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. It also looks at the…

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      PARTNERING for CHANGE: Unions and Community Groups Build Coalitions for Economic Justice

      S. Deser,David B. Reynolds

      Unions and community groups have come together around a wide range of campaigns for economic justice. Partnering for Change brings together activists and intellectuals on the forefront of these organizing…

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      PARTNERING for CHANGE: Unions and Community Groups Build Coalitions for Economic Justice

      S. Deser,David B. Reynolds

      Unions and community groups have come together around a wide range of campaigns for economic justice. Partnering for Change brings together activists and intellectuals on the forefront of these organizing…

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      Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Or Life Among the Lowly

      Harriet Beecher Stowe (Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies)

      A faithful reproduction of the hard-to-find Splendid Edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic American novel, this version features all of the 117 illustrations drawn by Hammatt Billings and a detailed…

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      World War I and American Art

      World War I had a profound impact on American art and culture. Nearly every major artist responded to events, whether as official war artists, impassioned observers, or participants on the…

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      The Serpent in the Cup: Temperance in American Literature

      Debra J. Rosenthal

      An exploration of America’s battle with the bottle through an analysis of literature on temperance. The ten essays in this book include topics ranging from the cultural role of the…

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      The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum: Suicide and Economic Success in Modern Japan

      Mamoru Iga

      Japanese society is frequently held up to the Western world as a model of harmony and efficiency, but the price it pays tends to be overlooked. In a searching analysis…

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      Management of Lakes and Reservoirs during Global Climate Change

      Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Prague, 11-15 November 1995

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      Management of Lakes and Reservoirs during Global Climate Change

      Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Prague, 11-15 November 1995

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      Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row

      Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row examines the full scope of the career of this often overlooked film auteur, with essays exploring individual films, groups of films (such as…

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      Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row

      Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row examines the full scope of the career of this often overlooked film auteur, with essays exploring individual films, groups of films (such as…

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