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About Sanford Pinsker

Sanford Pinsker is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including book-length studies of Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Joseph Heller, and J. D. Salinger. He also has published more than 800 articles, essays, editorials, and book reviews, frequently contributing to Georgia Review, Sewanee Review, and VQR. He recently retired after 37 years of teaching at Franklin and Marshall College. He now lives in south Florida, where he writes about American literature and culture on cloudy days.

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Hating America, at Home and Abroad

Sanford Pinsker

Only subscribers may read this in its entirety. What follows is a free preview, truncated midway through.

Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World. By Jedediah Purdy. Knopf, February 2004. $14 (paper)
Five Shades of Shadow. By Tracy Daugherty. Nebraska, March 2003. $27.95
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