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Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more
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Reginald Shepherd - Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Poet Reginald Shepherd died in 2008, making this, sadly, his first and last book of prose. This collection of his essays, articles, and reviews clearly establishes the liberatory power of poetry and literature. Shepherd's work, including the autobiographical essay about his childhood in the Bronx, ... Read more
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$65.00 - $65.00
Clifford Geertz - Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author
'America's most renowned cultural anthropologist...analyzes the literary forms of several anthropologist notables.'-Richard A. Scweder, The New York Times Book Review ... Read more
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John Dizikes - Opera in America: A Cultural History
This lively and critically acclaimed book-the first comprehensive cultural and social history of musical theater in the United States - is a handsomely illustrated account of productions, personalities audiences, and theaters throughout the country from colonial times to the present day. ... Read more
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$45.00 - $55.00
Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more
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Alex Ross - The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Alex Ross, the wonderfully erudite and insightful music critic for The New Yorker, traces the shifting currents of classical music from the 1906 premiere of Richard Strauss's SALOME to the end of the 20th century. Along the way, he provides vivid portraits of classical composers, brings to life pivo... Read more
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