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Book SynopsisExplores the interaction between culture and economics during the transition from Keynesianism in the mid-1960s to the triumph of neoliberalism in the 1980s. Daniel Robert McClure tracks the perception that a great neoliberal reckoning might restore America's repressive racial, sexual, gendered, and classed foundations in the wake of the 1960s.

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Book SynopsisThe story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland''s most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska''s subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.Trade Review'A tour de force...A magical accomplishment by an alchemist of ideas and words, images and truth.' - Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun '[In America] has an invigorating spaciousness...packed with characters, incidents, and colour, and combining mass appeal with high intelligence.' - Walter Kirn, New York magazine

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Book SynopsisFrom the Russian revolutions of 1917 to the end of the Civil War in 1920, Woodrow Wilson's administration sought to oppose the Bolsheviks in a variety of covert ways. Drawing on previously unavailable American and Russian archival material, David Foglesong chronicles both sides of this secret war and reveals a new dimension to the first years of the US-Soviet rivalry.

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Book Synopsis*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibly moving and stirring' DIANA EVANSAmerica is at a crossroads.Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin's writings, Glaude suggests we can find hope and guidance through an era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Seamlessly combining biography with history, memoir and trenchant analysis of our moment, Begin Again bears witness to the difficult truth of race in America. It is at once a searing exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a more just future.'An essayistic marvel . . . deeply personal and yet immensely readable' SARA COLLINS, GUARDIAN'An urgent, deeply interesting book' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVERWinner of the Stowe Prize 2021Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2021Trade ReviewI loved Eddie Glaude's Begin Again. James Baldwin is a man for our moment: in a time of Black Lives Matter we've come to think about our past, our colonial history, enslavement, matters of race and identity. The beauty of this book is not just that it's deeply personal, but that it's also extraordinarily scholarly . . . You're left with an understanding of the extraordinary modernity, relevance and the immense power of James Baldwin. It's a simply wonderful book -- Philippe SandsBegin Again is an essayistic marvel, circling and folding back on itself as Baldwin's musings in the past and Glaude's analysis of the present give meaning to each other . . . a scholarly, deeply personal, and yet immensely readable meditation, a masterful reckoning with the "latest betrayal" of the American ideal -- Sara Collins * Guardian *Timely, powerful . . . Glaude invites us with him to "read Baldwin to the end" and reveals a writer, not spent, but rather illuminating the path beyond despair - the work of a saint if ever there was such a thing -- Ashish Ghadiali * Observer *A call to confront the truth and legacies of the traumatic birth of America . . . urgent . . . original -- Sujit Sivasundaram * History Today, Books of the Year *Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic -- Pankaj Mishra, author of The Age of AngerAn unparalleled masterpiece of social criticism. Glaude thinks alongside America's finest essayist, matching the master's firepower, brilliance, courage, and sensitivity at every turn . . . breathtaking -- Imani Perry, author of Breathe and Looking for LorraineIncredibly moving and stirring. Begin Again. . . underlines just how relevant and crucial Baldwin's work has always been and always will be -- Diana Evans, author of Ordinary PeopleA powerful indictment of racial injustice in the US written in conversation with the writings of James Baldwin . . . whose wisdom should be part of our conversations today * New Statesman *Begin Again speaks to a global Black Lives Matter movement . . . A riveting read -- Raymond Antrobus, author of The PerseveranceThe magic of Begin Again is that it allows us to ponder Baldwin both in his perilous era and in our own. Remarkable, and remarkably relevant -- Tracy K. Smith, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Life on Mars

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Book SynopsisA chronological collection of interviews with, and speeches by, the writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) who emerged during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and, over the course of a career that spanned nearly fifty years, gained international attention and acclaim in almost every genre of writing.Trade ReviewHughes attracted newspaper coverage wherever he performed, and this compendious volume includes many telling mini-interviews and profiles from his four decades in the public eye. * LRB *The book will serve as a valuable resource to scholars seeking a new vantage point from which to reconsider Hughes's ideas on art, politics, and racial and economic justice. * ALH Online Review, Series XL *

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Book SynopsisIn 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans.The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books.Half a century on, Geert Mak sets off from Steinbeck’s home.Trade ReviewWhere Steinbeck generally avoided the hubbub of big cities, Mak balances descriptions of the rural plains and towns that symbolize the country's early origins with fascinating sections on urban growth and decay... An ambitious and enjoyable take on America's story * Times Literary Supplement *Rambling, thoughtful, often funny... Wonderful * Guardian *[A] smart, deep-rooted state of the nation report from Main Street, USA * The Times *Perfect for armchair travellers * Choice Magazine *The lyrical story of two journeys interwoven with a broad history and witty observations about the changes of place and people over the past 50 years -- Julia Richardson * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisFrom across the political spectrum, a group of American leaders have come together to change the course of their nation—to Rework America.Trade Review"...a readable and well-reasoned text." -- The Economist

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Book SynopsisAs demonstrated by the 2016 presidential election, memes have become the suasory tactic par excellence for the promotional and recruitment efforts of the Alt-right. Memes are not simply humorous shorthands or pithy assertions, but play a significant role in the machinations of politics and how the public comes to understand and respond to their government and compatriots. Using the tools of rhetorical criticism, the authors detail how memetic persuasion operates, with a particular focus on the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. Make America Meme Again reveals the rhetorical principles used to design Alt-right memes, outlining the myriad ways memes lure mainstream audiences to a number of extremist claims. In particular, this book argues that Alt-right memes impact the culture of digital boards and broader public culture by stultifying discourse, thereby shaping how publics congeal. The authors demonstrate that memes are a mechanism that proliferate white nationalism and exclusTrade Review"Make America Meme Again should be of interest to anyone concerned with how internet culture and tactics of persuasion are being deployed by the extreme Right moving into the 2020 election." —New Books Network"Woods and Hahner provide a blueprint for how the Alt-right has been able to transform memes into the dominant tool for their political agenda; subsequent scholars and activists can use this blueprint to work to change the current conjuncture to one more favorable to Leftist politics." —Michael Mario Albrecht, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 8.2 (Fall 2019)Table of ContentsFigures – Acknowledgments – Introduction: Alt-Right Memes and Networks of Public Discourse – The Origins of Alt-Right Memes and Their Proliferation – Pepe the Frog and Iconic Assemblages – Lulz: White Nationalism for the Digital Age – How the Alt-Right Moves: Memes as Tactical Circulation – Silencing the Opposition: Memes as Warfare – Conclusion: The Coming Meme Battles – Index.

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Book SynopsisThe official art book for the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the 8th title reissue of the 24-book Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga series published as a resized matching set.The 8th of the 24 Marvel Cinematic Universe Infinity Saga film titles being published as a complete set.Packed with exclusive content, this fully illustrated tome sheds light on how Captain America: The Winter Soldier was created, including concept art, drawings, movie stills, and storyboards. Follow the film’s complete artistic evolution, from a fine selection of concept design for characters and costumes, to behind-the-scenes processes and progressions from comic to movie.Here is everything you need to know about the making of the movie from all the key players—including co-directors Joe and Anthony Russo, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, along with all the talented special-effects gurus, concept illustrators, visual-effects designers, and storyb

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Book SynopsisKorngold in America offers new ways of listening to the film scores and post-Hollywood concert works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897--1957), a Viennese-raised Austro-Hungarian composer who left Europe for Hollywood in the mid-1930s to write for Warner Bros. It reassesses Korngold's place in twentieth-century music historiography and dismantles many of the myths that have obscured a proper understanding of his work. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, Korngold in America reveals Korngold's commercial and artistic relationships with studio processes and staff, highlights aspects of his compositional practice, and traces the way in which he adapted his skills as a musical dramatist and experienced opera composer to the demands of film. The book presents a more complete picture of Korngold's artistry than has hitherto been possible, showing both the important role played by his music in the Hollywood films of which it is a part and the importance in turn of Hollywood fil

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Book SynopsisThe first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impactit strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecution and duress. From the opium wars in China to anti-imperial rebellions in Peru to the colonization of Australiathe inspirational impact the American success had on fringe uprisings was outweighed by the influence it had on the tightening fists of oppressive world powers. Here Matthew Lockwood presents, in vivid detail, the neglected story of this unintended revolution. It sowed the seeds of collapse for the preeminent empires of the early modern era, setting the stage for the global domination of Britain, Russia, and the United States. Lockwood illuminates the forgotten stories and experiences of the communities and individuals who adapted to this new world in which the global balance of pTrade Review“Lockwood . . . has a keen eye for a good yarn, and there are enthralling glimpses here of individual lives buffeted by the American Revolution.”—Alex von Tunzelmann, New York Times Book Review“To Begin the World Over Again is a captivating journey through
 the decade in which America wrestled with the British Crown. Readers will enjoy Matthew Lockwood's vivid descriptions” —Elizabeth Cobbs, Times Higher Education Supplement"Lockwood constructs an immensely readable narrative that tracks the global impact of the Revolution"—All About History“To Begin the World Over Again is a thought-provoking and fascinating account of the American Revolution’s unintended consequences. It is also a delightfully readable book whose enchanting prose almost made this professor late to his own lecture.”—Mark G. Spencer, Times Literary Supplement“A stunning narrative about the violent aftershocks of the American Revolution. Lockwood shows how the American revolution set off a global war in its own image that carried revolutionary violence and imperial repression not only to Europe but also to South America, India, Australia and Africa. His book movingly portrays the consequences for indigenous and subject peoples all over the globe, including those in the new United States.”—Stella Tillyard, author of Aristocrats“Matthew Lockwood is a master story-teller, deftly showcasing the lives of ordinary people alongside the impact of historical ideas and events. To Begin the World Over Again is enthralling, provocative, and wonderfully enlightening.”—Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana"It has seemed to each generation that the no more can be said about the American Revolution; and then along comes a book like this, to tell us we have been looking in the wrong places."—Robert J. Allison, author of The American Revolution“A major contribution to our understanding of the American Revolution. Lockwood demonstrates that American independence had global ramifications. He does so with an eye for telling detail and graceful prose and deserves a wide audience of specialists and general readers.”—Francis D. Cogliano, author of Thomas Jefferson“In an apt metaphor, Matthew Lockwood likens the American Revolution to a stone cast into a pond, creating a splash whose ripples radiated outward to shake up the whole world. In addition to inspiring an "age of democratic revolutions" in France and Latin America, the wartime alliance with France caused a domino effect of warfare between Britain and several European powers that reverberated as far away as India. And in response to the loss of its American colonies, Britain reorganized and expanded imperial expansion elsewhere until the sun truly did not set on the empire. Lockwood untangles this complex story in a tour de force of historical scholarship.”—James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom

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Book SynopsisRepresenting a collaboration among North American, Latin American, and European historians, anthropologists, and political scientists, this volume attempts to facilitate theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. It showcases research, discussion, and various archival and oral sources centering where conflicts actually brewed.Trade Review“This ambitious and worthy enterprise builds upon the scholarship of recent years that has articulated new perspectives on the Latin American Cold War.” - Arthur Schmidt, A Contracorriente“In From the Cold brings new insights on the different ways that the superpowers’ rivalries shaped politics and culture in Latin America. A truly collaborate and interdisciplinary project by eleven U. S. and Latin American historians, anthropologists, and political scientists . . . the authors provide fresh narratives showing that the intense struggle that spread political terror and produced episodes of violence and trauma also generated spaces for resistance . . . influenced the Latin American media, and gave national leaders carte blanche in the designs of policies, domestic and international.” - Ivani Vassoler, Perspectives on Political Science“Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser present a refreshing intellectual rapprochement of the Cold War as Latin Americans experienced it. . . . In from the Cold blazes new trails in our understanding of the Cold War in Latin America and deserves a wide audience among students and scholars of the period and region.” - Matthew A. Redinger, The Journal of American History“[G]iven the array of authors, [In from the Cold] would be a very useful addition to a number of different courses, and its challenge to the status quo should spark probing discussions of precisely how to understand the nature of the Cold War in Latin America. . . . The master narrative of great power rivalry is no mere invention. What this book makes clear, however, is that it was not nearly as all-encompassing as is generally argued.” - Gregory Weeks, Hispanic American Historical Review“The collection serves as an excellent guide not only for understanding the ‘specificity of Latin America in the global Cold War,’ but also for identifying points of continuity between the Cold War and the contemporary War on Terror.” - Claire Fox, New Mexico Historical Review“[T]his volume is an admirable piece of work that puts into view a corpus of research that is valuable and fascinating on its own merits but also makes an important point about intellectual innovation.” - Aaron Navarro, Bulletin of Latin American Research“Of exceptional importance, In from the Cold is, at last, a volume general readers and classes have needed to fill a wide, embarrassing, and revealing gap in the current literature. It is an authoritative, cross-cultural, and provocatively interpretive work (led by Gilbert M. Joseph’s superb introductory overview of both the global Cold War and post–1945 U.S.–Latin American relations), and notably important in regard to Washington’s success in helping to kill Latin American democratic and independent cultural movements even as U.S. officials were demanding the spread of democracy elsewhere.”—Walter LaFeber, Andrew and James Tisch University Professor, Cornell University“This outstanding collection explains why Latin America was central to the Cold War and why the Cold War was central for Latin America. By providing easy access to some of the best research currently being undertaken on Cold War history, the editors have done a great favor to those who are looking for critical and innovative explorations of the recent past.”—O. A. Westad, London School of Economics, author of The Global Cold War“In From the Cold brings new insights on the different ways that the superpowers’ rivalries shaped politics and culture in Latin America. A truly collaborate and interdisciplinary project by eleven U. S. and Latin American historians, anthropologists, and political scientists . . . the authors provide fresh narratives showing that the intense struggle that spread political terror and produced episodes of violence and trauma also generated spaces for resistance . . . influenced the Latin American media, and gave national leaders carte blanche in the designs of policies, domestic and international.” -- Ivani Vassoler * Perspectives on Political Science *“Given the array of authors, [In from the Cold] would be a very useful addition to a number of different courses, and its challenge to the status quo should spark probing discussions of precisely how to understand the nature of the Cold War in Latin America. . . . The master narrative of great power rivalry is no mere invention. What this book makes clear, however, is that it was not nearly as all-encompassing as is generally argued.” -- Gregory Weeks, * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[T]his volume is an admirable piece of work that puts into view a corpus of research that is valuable and fascinating on its own merits but also makes an important point about intellectual innovation.” -- Aaron Navarro * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser present a refreshing intellectual rapprochement of the Cold War as Latin Americans experienced it. . . . In from the Cold blazes new trails in our understanding of the Cold War in Latin America and deserves a wide audience among students and scholars of the period and region.” -- Matthew A. Redinger * Journal of American History *“The collection serves as an excellent guide not only for understanding the ‘specificity of Latin America in the global Cold War,’ but also for identifying points of continuity between the Cold War and the contemporary War on Terror.” -- Claire Fox * New Mexico Historical Review *“This ambitious and worthy enterprise builds upon the scholarship of recent years that has articulated new perspectives on the Latin American Cold War.” -- Arthur Schmidt * A Contracorriente *Table of ContentsPreface vii I. New Approaches, Debates, and Sources What We Now Know and Should Know: Bringing Latin America More Meaningfully into Cold War Studies / Gilbert M. Joseph 3 Recovering the Memory of the Cold War: Forensic History and Latin America / Thomas S. Blanton 47 II. Latin America between the Superpowers: International Realpolitik, the Ideology of the State, and the “Latin Americanization” of the Conflict The Caribbean Crisis: Catalyst for Soviet Projection in Latin America / Daniela Spenser 77 The View from Havana: Lessons from Cuba’s African Journey, 1959-1976 / Piero Gleijeses 112 Transnationalizing the Dirty War: Argentina in Central America / Ariel C. Armony 134 III. Everyday Contests over Culture and Representation in the Latin American Cold War Producing the Cold War in Mexico: The Public Limits of Covert Communications / Seth Fein 171 Cuba si, Yanquis no: The Sacking of the Instituto Cultural Mexico-Norteamericano in Morelia, Michoacan, 1961 / Eric Zolov 214 Miracle on Ice: Industrial Workers and the Promise of Americanization in Cold War Mexico / Steven J. Bachelor 253 Chicano Cold Warriors: Cesar Chavez, Mexican American Politics, and California Farmworkers / Stephen Pitti 273 Birth Control Pills and Molotov Cocktails: Reading Sex and Revolution in 1968 Brazil / Victoria Langland 308 Rural Markets, Revolutionary Souls, and Rebellious Women in Cold War Guatemala / Carlota McAllister 350 IV. Final Reflections Standing Conventional Cold War History on Its Head / Daniela Spenser 381 Selective Bibliography 397 Contributors 427 Index 429

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Book SynopsisThis first full-length study of William Bronk, one of our most important contemporary poets and essayists, locates his work in relation to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England literary tradition, to later twentieth-century modernism, and to the subsequent Objectivist and Black Mountain schools of poetry. Through special attention to his uniquely elegant style, this study demonstrates how Bronk has brought together earlier American poetics and philosophy with modern and postmodern notions of being, emptiness, and nothingness. This book features extensive discussions of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens, as well as of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Cid Corman, and George Oppen. As particularly concerns these twentieth-century figures, Burt Kimmelman also sheds light on the role in their thinking and poetics played by post-positivist science especially its theories of relativity and uncertainty. Analyses of exchanges of letters, most critically between Oppen and Bronk, disclose the great influence of their writing of contemporary intellectual currents aside from poetry itself. Kimmelmans discussion of epistemology is central to understanding this subtle and at times complex poet. The book explains ultimately how, as Michael Heller observes, 'Bronk is, in some sense, a reshaper of an American transcendental tradition, a strong poet of paradoxicality and worldlessness.' Discussions of solitude and abnegation, two key ideas Bronk derives from Thoreau and Melville, reveal not only the roots of Bronks concepts of being, emptiness, and nothingness, but also essential aspects of late-twentieth-century philosophy, psychology, and aesthetics anticipated by Bronk, Borman, Creeley, Olson, Oppen, and others over half a century ago.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Extremely rich and well organised. . . . This documentary collection is in many regards outstanding and the editors are to be commended for deftly crafting an anthology we shall all use for many years to come."---Mario Del Pero, European Review of International Studies"America in the World would be an excellent addition to a modern American history curriculum, since it requires readers to encounter history from the history makers' perspectives." * Choice *"This is a very good book, it is an extremely brave attempt at an almost impossible subject given the time scale. It will be extremely useful to those starting out on their quest for knowledge of a super power's, United States of America, foreign policy. If it doesn't list every turn in the road, along the way, it most certainly points one in the right direction."---Don Vincent, Open History

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Book SynopsisPresents a study of the importance of Protestant hymns in defining America and American religion. This book looks at the ability of such hymns to reveal shifts in American popular religion. It also focuses attention on the role hymns play in changing attitudes about race, class, gender, economic life, politics, and society.

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Book SynopsisA compelling new drama that imagines a confrontation between two giants of stage and screen, Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller. Premiering at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in September 2024.

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