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The Failed Promise

Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

by Robert S. Levine ...

Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal ... Read more

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Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal
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The CIA Intelligence Analyst

Views from the Inside

by Roger Z. George, Robert Levine, Adam Wasserman, Cynthia S. Barkanic, Jane P. Fletcher, Jeffrey W. Waggett, James B. Bruce, Blake Mobley0, Clark Shannon1, Steven M. Stigall2 ...

A unique insiders' account of what CIA intelligence analysts do and why it mattersThe common perception of a CIA officer is someone who collects secret intelligence abroad—a spy. However, the critical link between secrets and policy is the intelligence analyst. The CIA Intelligence Analyst brings to light the vital, but often-unseen, work of these officers.Roger Z. George, Robert Levine, and the ... Read more

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A unique insiders' account of what CIA intelligence analysts do and why it mattersThe common perception of a CIA officer is someone who collects secret intelligence abroad—a spy. However, the critical link between secrets and policy is the intelligence analyst. The CIA Intelligence Analyst brings to light the vital, but often-unseen, work of these officers.Roger Z. George, Robert Levine, and the
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Israel Potter

His Fifty Years of Exile

by Herman Melville, Robert S. Levine ...

The authoritative edition of Melville's only historical novelBased on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of Israel Potter's fall from Revolutionary War hero to peddler on the streets of London, where he obtained a livelihood by crying "Old Chairs to ... Read more

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The authoritative edition of Melville's only historical novelBased on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of Israel Potter's fall from Revolutionary War hero to peddler on the streets of London, where he obtained a livelihood by crying "Old Chairs to
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Presenting Archaeology in Court

A Guide to Legal Protection of Sites

by John Bundyll, Tim Canaday, Stefan Cassella, Marion Forsyth, Don Fowler, Patty Gerstenblith, Cheryl Huckerby, Guy LaChine, Robert Lester, Jane Levine, Larry A. Mackey, Barbara Malinkyl, J Michael Marous, Sarah Marous, Martin E. McAllister, Guy Prentice, Peter J. Schula, George S. Smith, Todd Swain, Gwen Yeaman ...

Series series Heritage Resource Management Series
The passage of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) in 1979 was a watershed moment in the movement to protect cultural objects against looting. This brief volume provides practical help to those who wish to use the provisions of ARPA_archaeologists, government land managers, preservation groups, and attorneys_to maximize its protective net. The distinguished group of authors, all ... Read more

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The passage of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) in 1979 was a watershed moment in the movement to protect cultural objects against looting. This brief volume provides practical help to those who wish to use the provisions of ARPA_archaeologists, government land managers, preservation groups, and attorneys_to maximize its protective net. The distinguished group of authors, all
... Read more
Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

by Robert S. Levine ...

Inspired by Toni Morrison's call for an interracial approach to American literature, and by recent efforts to globalize American literary studies, Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies ranges widely in its case-study approach to canonical and non-canonical authors. Leading critic Robert S. Levine considers Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, Melville, and other nineteenth ... Read more

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Inspired by Toni Morrison's call for an interracial approach to American literature, and by recent efforts to globalize American literary studies, Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies ranges widely in its case-study approach to canonical and non-canonical authors. Leading critic Robert S. Levine considers Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, Melville, and other nineteenth
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Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity

by Robert S. Levine ...

The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity. He explores their debates over issues like abolitionism, emigration, and nationalism, ... Read more

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The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity. He explores their debates over issues like abolitionism, emigration, and nationalism,
... Read more
Dislocating Race and Nation

Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism

by Robert S. Levine ...

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment by exploring the conflicted, multiracial, and contingent dimensions present in the works of ... Read more

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American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment by exploring the conflicted, multiracial, and contingent dimensions present in the works of
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The Lives of Frederick Douglass

by Robert S. Levine ...

Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relationships during his journey from slavery to freedom. Nevertheless, when these differing self-presentations are put side by side and consideration is given individually to their rhetorical strategies and historical moment, what emerges is a fascinating ... Read more

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Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relationships during his journey from slavery to freedom. Nevertheless, when these differing self-presentations are put side by side and consideration is given individually to their rhetorical strategies and historical moment, what emerges is a fascinating
... Read more
Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs

by Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren, Caroline Levander, Finnie Coleman, Hanna Wallinger, John Cullen Gruesser, John Ernest, M. Fabi, Andreá Williams0, Robert S. Levine1 ...

Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African ... Read more

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Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African
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The Failed Promise

Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

by Robert S. Levine ...

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Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal ... Read more

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Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal
... Read more

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Parables, Fantasies, Fragments

by Nathaniel Hawthorne ...

Here for the first time Hawthorne’s mind-bending short parables, fantasies, and fragments have been collected by an eminent Hawthorne scholar, culled from the author’s massive notebooks.Nathaniel Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825 and returned home to Salem, Massachusetts. Over the next nearly twenty years, he mostly resided at the family home, with his mother and sisters, and worked ... Read more

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Here for the first time Hawthorne’s mind-bending short parables, fantasies, and fragments have been collected by an eminent Hawthorne scholar, culled from the author’s massive notebooks.Nathaniel Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825 and returned home to Salem, Massachusetts. Over the next nearly twenty years, he mostly resided at the family home, with his mother and sisters, and worked
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The Last Dangerous Visions

by J. Michael Straczynski, J. Michael Straczynski, Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Cecil Castellucci, Richard Peck, Max Brooks0, various authors1, Adrian Tchaikovsky2, Cory Doctorow3, James S. A. Corey0 ...

Narrated by J. Michael Straczynski, Jennifer Pickens4, Robin Miles5, Lisa Flanagan6, Mark Sanderlin7, Robert Fass8, Charlie Albers9, Bronson Pinchot0, Alison McKenna1, Natalie Naudus2, various narrators3, Tim Campbell4, Neil Hellegers5, Josh Innerst6, Dion Graham7, Emily Woo Zeller8, James Anderson Foster9, Feodor Chin0, Paul Bellantoni1, Marc Vietor2, John Pirhalla3, Scott Brick4, Steven Jay Cohen5, Jim Meskimen6, P. J. Ochlan7, Gary Bennett8, Noah Michael Levine9 ...

Series series The Dangerous Visions Series
Unabridged

14 hours 32 min

An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with Again, Dangerous Visions. But for reasons undisclosed ... Read more

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An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with Again, Dangerous Visions. But for reasons undisclosed
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