Robert S Levine
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Description
"The absorbing narrative of Frederick Douglass's heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction's demise. When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses" for the Black community. Frederick Douglass, the country's...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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 collage of Robert S. Levine's elusive subject. The Lives...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: It is 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, Melville alternated between invented scenes and historical episodes, granting cameos to such famous men of the era as Benjamin Franklin (Potter may have been his...
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Read by millions of students over eight editions, The Norton Anthology of American Literature remains the best-selling undergraduate survey of American literature. The Shorter Ninth Edition is a cover-to-cover revision, featuring 16 complete longer works, 4 new contemporary authors (6 new authors in all), 9 clusters (3 new and 4 revised), more than 100 images, thoroughly revised introductions, and hundreds of new and fine-tuned annotations."--Back...
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Read by millions of students over eight editions, The Norton Anthology of American Literature remains the best-selling undergraduate survey of American literature. The Shorter Ninth Edition is a cover-to-cover revision, featuring 16 complete longer works, 4 new contemporary authors (6 new authors in all), 9 clusters (3 new and 4 revised), more than 100 images, thoroughly revised introductions, and hundreds of new and fine-tuned annotations."--Back...