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Aug.01.2008
Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination examines the artistic use of freakishness between 1900 and 1950, mapping its rather sudden shift from a highly profitable form of entertainment to a reviled one. Throughout this period, the public reassessed freak shows, gradually seeing them as...
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Jul.05.2008
In what is destined to become one of the most important books published this year, Lillian Rubin takes us inside the lives, hearts, and minds of America's working-class families and lets us hear them speak.
With an eloquence rivaling that of her earlier classic, Worlds of Pain, Lillian Rubin lays...
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Mar.14.2008
Rejoice Burning is based on real lives, people I knew and know, but the middle owes a lot to Uys Krige and the end to Robert Frost. It's theme, the weird separation of the worlds of people who live so closely together (African and European, settler and native) is an essential South African theme....
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Feb.25.2008
Nestled in the deep mountains of Appalachia is Leatherwood, Tennessee, home to the Flint family—Pentecostal Holiness preachers who spread the word of the gospels with poisonous snakes and lye. Charles, a preacher and the Flint’s patriarch, believes that his 10-year-old son Jacob is a prophet....
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Jan.25.2008
From the Jacket:
Finn takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature’s most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn’s father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain’s classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own....
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Jan.18.2008
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and...
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Jan.04.2008
When the angry white mob poured out of the bar on San Francisco's Geary Street and surrounded an innocent black man, Kevin Shea was the only one who tried to stop them. He failed, and now, thanks to a deceptive news photo taken during the melee, he is wanted for the murder himself-and the real...
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Jan.04.2008
Ishmael Reed proves he's a formidable historical novelist in this sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye-view of the Civil War. Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the nineteenth century for the disease that makes black people run away) escape from Virginia.
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Jan.04.2008
Despite the rabble-rousing subtitle, remarkable novelist and critic Reed offers far more than the erudite, colloquial confrontationalism with which he is often pigeon-holed. Essays sometimes focus on the virtues of crucial cultural figures, like Quincy Troupe, or contest divisive works by black...
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Dec.28.2007
Congratulations—just by opening the cover of this book you became twenty-five percent more patriotic.
From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other twenty-three and a half hours of your day. I Am America (and So Can...
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