A Strange And Fearful Interest
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Author | : Jennifer A. Watts |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 |
ISBN | : 9780873282659 |
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The American Civil War claimed the lives of 750,000 Americans. Death and mourning defined the four wrenching years between 1861 and 1865, leaving an indelible imprint on the nation at large. During these years, photography became a powerful tool of reportage and remembrance: "the field of photography is extending itself to embrace subjects of strange and sometimes of fearful interest," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes in reference to a haunting series of Civil War views. Drawing on more than 200 works from the superb Civil War collections at the Huntington Library, many never published before, A Strange and Fearful Interest explores how photography and other media were used to describe, explain and perhaps come to terms with a national trauma on an unprecedented scale. The volume focuses on the Battle of Antietam (not only the bloodiest day in the nation's history, but also the first in which photographs of American battlefield dead were made); the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the national mourning that ensued and the execution of the conspirators; and the establishment of Gettysburg National Monument as part of larger attempts at reconciliation and healing.
Author | : Hunter S. Thompson |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2003-04-07 |
Genre | : Experimental fiction |
ISBN | : 9780007161232 |
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Author | : Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury |
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Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Arlie Russell Hochschild |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1620973987 |
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The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.
Author | : Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury |
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Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Richard Wightman Fox |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2015-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393247244 |
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"[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation…Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling." —Jill Lepore, New York Times Book Review Abraham Lincoln remains America’s most beloved leader. The fact that he was lampooned in his day as "ugly and grotesque" only made Lincoln more endearing to millions. In Lincoln’s Body, acclaimed cultural historian Richard Wightman Fox explores how deeply, and how differently, Americans—black and white, male and female, Northern and Southern—have valued our sixteenth president, from his own lifetime to the Hollywood biopics about him. Lincoln continues to survive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.
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Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Psychology |
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Author | : Anna Balmer Myers |
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Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Amish |
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Author | : Dan Fox |
Publisher | : Coffee House Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2016-04-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 156689428X |
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Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.
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Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1869 |
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