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… the concept of nationalism continues to present itself as a complex sociopolitical phenomenon, constantly in formation, … for southern writers have remained particular and constant points of interest—from his first two published essays in … , Billy Tone, is concerned “not with the crimes he studies but with the South itself and with the accumulated …
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… The blog offers correspondence “deserving of a wider audience” (as its tagline runs). When possible, Usher’s blog … . When readers retweet these links, they inevitably add commentary to this effect: “Looks like nothing ever … to Patrick Henry Anderson, is one of the Letters of Note website’s most-visited pages.) Variations on the same theme …
… for the citadels of learning. Nonetheless, Hattaway accomplishes this feat while remaining accessible to all. … on the German resistance for its accessibility to a wide audience. The work’s greatest asset though is Hamerow’s … authors (called “Chaucerian”, not “Renaissance”) disappoints. How far Scottish literature dominated the period is …
Criticism
… aimed at glorifying distinguished pomposity—or both combined, as in the much overrated Stimson memoirs. Such … The fatuous and self-confident ignorance about elementary points of European history and culture that Roosevelt … the flimsy basis of his pronouncements. (“Roosevelt had studied (sic) in Germany and felt that he was particularly …
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… the same time, I’d published two books, with a third forthcoming, and was being asked at least twice a month to write … extent before.” As I write this, I wonder how Goldman, who died in 2018, felt about Hollywood at the end. No doubt he … as “nonrecurring phenomena,” even though, as Goldman points out, they are constantly recurring. Goldman came by …
… as free silver or prohibition. Dead as it is, it did not die in vain. Having been a serious popular infection, it … he found himself the center of a storm of controversy and comment which recalls the experience of another Viennese … a sample of the way they would analyze a personality. It is also an excellent picture of the contemporary conception of …