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Chapter 1 Introduction: The Art of Democratic Literature Chapter 2 Billy Budd and the Politics of Prudence Chapter 3 Yankee Go Home: Mark Twain's Postcolonial Romance Chapter 4 Tom Sawyer: Potential President Chapter 5 Patriots and Philosophers: The Idea of Obligation and Race in William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust Chapter 6 A Story About Nothing: Two Kinds of Nihilists and One Kind of Christian in Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" Chapter 7 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Men Chapter 8 Go Tell It on the Mountain: James Baldwin and the Politics of Faith Chapter 9 Vexed Genealogy: Octavia Butler and Political Memories of Slavery Chapter 10 "Hello Babies": Eliot Rosewater and the Art of Citizenship in the Graduation Speeches of Kurt Vonnegut Chapter 11 The American Mystery Deepens: Hearing Tocqueville in Don DeLillo's White Noise

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    A Hardback by Patrick J. Deneen, Joseph Romance, Lawrie Balfour

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: 28/07/2005
      ISBN13: 9780742532588, 978-0742532588
      ISBN10: 0742532585

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      Chapter 1 Introduction: The Art of Democratic Literature Chapter 2 Billy Budd and the Politics of Prudence Chapter 3 Yankee Go Home: Mark Twain's Postcolonial Romance Chapter 4 Tom Sawyer: Potential President Chapter 5 Patriots and Philosophers: The Idea of Obligation and Race in William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust Chapter 6 A Story About Nothing: Two Kinds of Nihilists and One Kind of Christian in Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" Chapter 7 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Men Chapter 8 Go Tell It on the Mountain: James Baldwin and the Politics of Faith Chapter 9 Vexed Genealogy: Octavia Butler and Political Memories of Slavery Chapter 10 "Hello Babies": Eliot Rosewater and the Art of Citizenship in the Graduation Speeches of Kurt Vonnegut Chapter 11 The American Mystery Deepens: Hearing Tocqueville in Don DeLillo's White Noise

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