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A Cultural Biography
Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman ...
The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most import...
“Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history.” —Annette Gordon-Reed, The New Yorker In this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched ...
The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds pre...
America in the Age of Jackson
A New York Times Notable Book “Far more than just a political story or, for that matter, a story of Andrew Jackson, Reynolds’s book shines a brigh...
Portrays Walt Whitman in the social, political, and cultural context of his day....
Abraham Lincoln in His Times
Now an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln's Dilemma, airing February 18, 2022. One of the Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year | A Washington ...
The Emergence of Religious Literature in America
The first full-length study of early religious fiction from the Revolution to the Civil War, this book explores a long forgotten genre of writing. Ran...