USA

"A portrait of political campaigning that is more like what we hope than what we fear . . . a stout defense--indeed, the best I have read--of the Obama years." --David Gergen, The …

2003. Torjus Knudsen er på reise med sonen sin til USA. Tord skal delta på 140-årsmarkeringa for slaget ved Chickamauga, der tippoldefaren hans slost. Faren forstår lite av sonens …

In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of “queer liberalism”-the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an …

I tjue år har hatet mellom ranch-naboene Kahn og Marquette ulmet. Nå gløder det, for de to enkemennene er blitt bitre dødsfiender. Det er kun et tidsspørsmål når hele kveglandet …

When her journals began, 34-year-old Oates was already a recipient of the National Book Award (1969), with many O. Henry awards, and others, under her literary belt. For all her …

Babbitt blev ett fenomen i sin kritik mot sociala normer och medelklassliv, och väckte starka känslor och debatt när den kom.Huvudpersonen George F Babbitt är den typiske …

First edition, Winner of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, American Public Health Association With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled …

'A book full of marvels' New YorkerThe American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with the fight for …

In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" …