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By the Sweat of the Brow

Literature and Labor in Antebellum America

By: Nicholas K. Bromell

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By the Sweat of the Brow

Literature and Labor in Antebellum America

By: Nicholas K. Bromell

The spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism, the challenge to slavery - these and other developments fueled an anxious debate about work in antebellum America. In this book, Nicholas K. Bromell discusses the ways in which American writers participated in this cultural contestation of the nature and meaning of work. In chapters on Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, Bromell shows how these writers not only scrutinized work - be it factory labor, agriculture, maternal labor, or slave labor - but also reflected upon its relation to their own work of writing. Bromell argues that American writers generally sensed a deep affinity between the mental labor of writing and such bodily labors as blacksmithing, house building, housework, mothering, field labor, growing beans, and so on. Nevertheless, writers resisted identifying their labor as purely or simply bodily, both because society placed mental and spiritual labor at the top of its scale of values and because the body was so often the site of gender or racial subjugation. Bromell also makes important contributions to three areas of nineteenth-century social history. He probes the period's conflicting ideas of mothers as both spiritual "angels of the house" and ineluctably embodied laborers in the home. Using as an example the exhibitions of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, he discusses the advent of an industrial ideology that sought to devalue the meaning of skilled manual labor. Finally, he suggests that, paradoxically, slaves were sometimes able to find in their labor a mode of self-actualization within slavery. Deftlycombining literary and social history, canonical and noncanonical texts, primary source material and contemporary theory, By the Sweat of the Brow establishes work as an important subject of cultural criticism. At the same time, it contributes to discussions of race, gender, and the body in American literary studies.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226075540

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9780226075549

Tomorrow Never Knows

Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s

By: Nicholas Knowles Bromell

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Tomorrow Never Knows

Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s

By: Nicholas Knowles Bromell

Tomorrow Never Knows takes us back to the primal scene of the 1960s and asks: what happened when young people got high and listened to rock as if it really mattered—as if it offered meaning and sustenance, not just escape and entertainment? What did young people hear in the music of Dylan, Hendrix, or the Beatles? Bromell's pursuit of these questions radically revises our understanding of rock, psychedelics, and their relation to the politics of the 60s, exploring the period's controversial legacy, and the reasons why being "experienced" has been an essential part of American youth culture to the present day.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226075621

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9780226075624

Spooked

How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood

By: Nicholas Schou

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Spooked

How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood

By: Nicholas Schou

The American people depend on a free press to keep a close and impartial watch on the national security operations that are carried out in our name. But in many cases, this trust is sadly misplaced, as leading journalists are seduced and manipulated by the secretive agencies they cover. While the press remains silent about its corrupting relationship with the intelligence community—a relationship that dates back to the Cold War—Spooking the News will blow the lid off this unseemly arrangement. Schou will name names and shine a spotlight on flagrant examples of collusion, when respected reporters have crossed the line and sold out to powerful agencies. The book will also document how the CIA has embedded itself in “liberal” Hollywood to ensure that its fictional spies get the hero treatment on screen. Among the revelations in Spooking the News: • The CIA created a special public affairs unit to influence the production of Hollywood films and TV shows, allowing celebrities involved in pro-CIA projects—including Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck—unique access inside the agency's headquarters. • The CIA vets articles on controversial topics like the drone assassination program and grants friendly reporters background briefings on classified material, while simultaneously prosecuting ex-officers who spill the beans on damaging information.

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151

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Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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1510703411

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9781510703414

The Powers of Dignity

The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass

By: Nick Bromell

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The Powers of Dignity

The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass

By: Nick Bromell

Nick Bromell examines how Frederick Douglass forged a distinctively black political philosophy out of his experiences as an enslaved and later nominally free man in ways that challenge Anglo-Continental traditions of political thought.

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1478010223

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9781478010227

The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City

By: Nicholas Dawidoff

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The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City

By: Nicholas Dawidoff

A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native and acclaimed author Nicholas Dawidoff returned home and spent eight years reporting the deeper story of this injustice, and what it reveals about the enduring legacies of social and economic disparity. In The Other Side of Prospect, he has produced an immersive portrait of a seminal community in an old American city now beset by division and gun violence. Tracing the histories of three people whose lives meet in tragedy—victim Pete Fields, likely murderer Major, and Bobby—Dawidoff indelibly describes optimistic families coming north from South Carolina as part of the Great Migration, for the promise of opportunity and upward mobility, and the harrowing costs of deindustrialization and neglect. Foremost are the unique challenges confronted by children like Major and Bobby coming of age in their “forgotten” neighborhood, steps from Yale University. After years in prison, with the help of a true-believing lawyer, Bobby is finally set free. His subsequent struggles with the memories of prison, and his heartbreaking efforts to reconnect with family and community, exemplify the challenges the formerly incarcerated face upon reentry into society and, writes Reginald Dwayne Betts, make this “the best book about the crisis of incarceration in America.” The Other Side of Prospect is a reportorial tour de force, at once a sweeping account of how the injustices of racism and inequality reverberate through the generations, and a beautifully written portrait of American city life, told through a group of unforgettable people and their intertwined experiences.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324002034

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9781324002031

The Albanian Operation of the CIA and MI6, 1949-1953

Conversations with Participants in a Venture Betrayed

By: Nicholas Bethell

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The Albanian Operation of the CIA and MI6, 1949-1953

Conversations with Participants in a Venture Betrayed

By: Nicholas Bethell

The Albanian Operation, carried out by British and American secret services from 1949 to 1953, was one of the first Western attempts to subvert a country behind the Iron Curtain. The British liaison officer for the project in Washington was Kim Philby, a Soviet double agent who sabotaged the whole venture. In all, about 300 agents and civilians are thought to have been killed in the disastrous operation. The story was first pieced together by Nicholas Bethell in his 1984 book The Great Betrayal: The Untold Story of Kim Philby's Biggest Coup, based on interviews and conversations with British and American officials and Albanian fighters who infiltrated the Stalinist Albanian regime and escaped alive. The present work presents the interviews and throws new light on what actually took place.

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McFarland

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1476623813

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9781476623818

Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy

By: Nicholas Buccola

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Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy

By: Nicholas Buccola

Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and timeless questions in politics. What is the moral basis of popular sovereignty? What are the proper limits on the will of the majority? When and why should we revere the law? What are we to do when the letter of the law is at odds with what we believe justice requires? How is our devotion to a particular nation related to our commitment to universal ideals? What is the best way to protect the right to liberty for all people? The contributors to this volume, a methodologically and ideologically diverse group of scholars, examine Lincoln's responses to these and other ultimate questions in politics. The result is a fascinating portrait of not only Abraham Lincoln but also the promises and paradoxes of liberal democracy. The basic liberal democratic idea is that individual liberty is best secured by a democratic political order that treats all citizens as equals before the law and is governed by the law, with its limits on how the state may treat its citizens and on how citizens may treat one another. Though wonderfully coherent in theory, these ideas prove problematic in real-world politics. The authors of this volume approach Lincoln as the embodiment of this paradox--"naturally antislavery" yet unflinchingly committed to defending proslavery laws; defender of the common man but troubled by the excesses of democracy; devoted to the idea of equal natural rights yet unable to imagine a harmonoius, interracial democracy. Considering Lincoln as he attempted to work out the meaning and coherence of the liberal democratic project in practice, these authors craft a profile of the 16th president's political thought from a variety of perspectives and through multiple lenses. Together their essays create the first fully-dimensional portrait of Abraham Lincoln as a political actor, expressing, addressing, and reframing the perennial questions of liberal democracy for his time and our own.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700622179

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9780700622177

The Time is Always Now

Black Political Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy

By: Nicholas Bromell

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The Time is Always Now

Black Political Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy

By: Nicholas Bromell

Nick Bromell argues in The Time is Always Now that blacks' reflections on their painful experience and their ability to advocate for people 'both black and more than black' (an Obama quote) provides us with the foundation for constructing a democracy that is less angry and more welcoming of a cosmopolitan polity.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199973431

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9780199973439

By the Sweat of the Brow

Literature and Labor in Antebellum America

By: Nicholas K. Bromell

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By the Sweat of the Brow

Literature and Labor in Antebellum America

By: Nicholas K. Bromell

The spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism, and the challenge to slavery fueled an anxious debate about the meaning and value of work in antebellum America. In chapters on Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, Nicholas Bromell argues that American writers generally sensed a deep affinity between the mental labor of writing and such bodily labors as blacksmithing, house building, housework, mothering, and farming. Combining literary and social history, canonical and noncanonical texts, primary source material, and contemporary theory, Bromell establishes work as an important subject of cultural criticism.

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The Time is Always Now

Black Political Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy

By: Nicholas Bromell

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Black Political Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy

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Tomorrow Never Knows

Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s

By: Nicholas Knowles Bromell

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Tomorrow Never Knows

Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s

By: Nicholas Knowles Bromell

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By the Sweat of the Brow

By the Sweat of the Brow

Tomorrow Never Knows

Tomorrow Never Knows

Spooked

Spooked

The Powers of Dignity

The Powers of Dignity

The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City

The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City

The Albanian Operation of the CIA and MI6, 1949-1953

The Albanian Operation of the CIA and MI6, 1949-1953

Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy

Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy

The Time is Always Now

The Time is Always Now

By the Sweat of the Brow

By the Sweat of the Brow

The Time is Always Now

The Time is Always Now

Tomorrow Never Knows

Tomorrow Never Knows

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