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15 produkter
Portable Abraham Lincoln
Av Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Delbanco
Häftad, 2011
268 kr
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Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the writer's art. "The Portable Abraham Lincoln" …
Melville
His World and Work
E-bok, 2013
80 kr
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If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his …
War Before the War
Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America''s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
E-bok, 2018
160 kr
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The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War For decades after its founding, America was really two nations--one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked their …
Real American Dream
A Meditation on Hope
Häftad, 2000
282 kr
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Since we discovered that, in Tocqueville’s words, “the incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy the heart,” how have we Americans made do? In The Real American Dream one of the nation’s premier literary scholars searches out the symbols and stories by which Americans have reached for …
Abolitionist Imagination
Inbunden, 2012
430 kr
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The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring and courageous reformers who hastened the end of slavery. But Andrew Delbanco sees abolitionists in a …
Puritan Ordeal
Häftad, 1991
394 kr
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More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world.
Puritans in America
A Narrative Anthology
Av Alan Heimert, Andrew Delbanco
Häftad, 1985
453 kr
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The whole destiny of America is contained in the first Puritans who landed on these shores, wrote de Tocqueville. These newcomers, and the range of their intellectual achievements and failures, are vividly depicted in The Puritans in America. Exiled from England, the Puritans settled in what …
College
What It Was, Is, and Should Be - Second Edition
Häftad, 2023
173 kr
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The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still mattersAs the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college …
College
What It Was, Is, and Should Be - Second Edition
E-bok, 2023
236 kr
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The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still matters As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year …
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
Häftad, 2019
248 kr
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Portable Abraham Lincoln
Av Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Delbanco
E-bok, 2009
199 kr
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Celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln''s birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today''s public rhetoric. Lincoln''s writings are testaments of our …
Melville
His World and Work
Häftad, 2013
262 kr
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Herman Melville was born into a family that in the fledgling republic had lost both money and status. Toughened at sea as a young man, he returned home to chronicle the deepest crises of his time while forever shaping our literature with Moby-Dick, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Benito Cereno, and …
Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics
Summer 2026
Av Sean Wilentz, Andrew Delbanco m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
188 kr
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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
Spring 2023
Av Andrew Delbanco, James Kirchick m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
188 kr
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