The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question "What would the Founding Fathers think?
That engagement had begun in 1896 in Philadelphia with an opinion piece he published following the screening of the Edison film The May Irwin Kiss.6 After that, he was hooked, witness to each stage of film's development.
His profound pleasure in these works also leads him to scrutinize and challenge them intimately. --Publishers Weekly This is an indispensable book about American music . . . --Fanfare . . . exhilarating . . .
The author of the bestselling The Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of Jefferson's, Madison's, and Adams's views to some of the most divisive issues in American politics and society ...
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter.
Blight's broad knowledge about Douglass was aided immeasurably in this book by a treasure trove of Douglass family ... 151 6P_Rubenstein_AmericanExp_EP.indd 151 6/23/21 12:14 PM 6/23/21 12:14 PM DAVID W. BLIGHT on Frederick Douglass 151.
Resisting Dialogue demonstrates how these novels are rhetorical exercises with real political clout capable of restoring the radical potential of dialogue in today’s globalized world.
"Yves R. Simon: A bibliography, 1923-1970, compiled by Anthony O. Simon": pages [189]-226.
"A strongly argued analysis and close reading of Delillo's works.
Index Acteon , 35 Benedetti , Mario , 95 , 168 Adams , Samuel , 169 Benet , Stephen Vincent , 120 Aldington , Richard , 170 Benjamin , Walter , 197 ( n19 ) Alfonso X , El Sabio , 157 Berger , John , 91 Amerindian culture , 14 , 158 ...