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“katherine kinney”

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  • Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War

    American Images of the Vietnam War

    by Katherine Kinney ...
    Hundreds of memoirs novels plays and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of media political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire in this instance refers not ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Friendly Fire

    American Images of the Vietnam War

    by Katherine Kinney ...
    Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of mediums, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire, in this instance, ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

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  • The Portable Walt Whitman

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  • Philip Roth at 80: A Celebration

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    by Philip Roth ...
    On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museum’s Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks from the evening’s speakers, a fitting tribute to the only living novelist whose work is collected ... Read more

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  • Beneath the American Renaissance

    The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

    by David S. Reynolds ...
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  • Thrill of the Chaste

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    Series series Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
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  • Real Folks

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    During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of “the folk.” At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a hybrid genre that revealed the folk as an anxious product of corporate capitalism, rather than an antidote to commercial culture. In Real Folks, Sonnet ... Read more

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  • Red, Black, and Jew

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