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Elliott Carter Speaks
These previously unpublished lectures by Elliott Carter date to the summer of 1967, when the acclaimed composer taught at the Contemporary Music Workshop held by the University of …
Always the Queen
Denise LaSalle's journey took her from rural Mississippi to an unquestioned reign as the queen of soul-blues. From her early R&B classics to bold and bawdy demands for …
Adams vs. Jefferson
A fascinating history of the turbulent presidential campaign of 1800 follows the clash between the two candidates, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, and their profoundly different …
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of Reform, examines the role of …
Analyzing Policy
Analyzing Policy not only helps students learn the conceptual foundations of policy analysis, but it also empowers them to apply what they learn and to engage in their own …
Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture
Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture employs the revolutionary sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist politics of Pynchon's novels. Joanna Freer identifies and …
Sisters and Saints
Ann Braude demonstrates the important role of women in American religious history. Although women have until recently been barred from public religious leadership, their support …
The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
New essays examining the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past. Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon marked a …
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New …