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360 Sound by Sean Wilentz
Category: Fiction
For 125 years, Columbia Records has been one of the most vibrant and storied names in pre-recorded sound, nurturing the careers of jazz, blues, rock, and pop legends such as W. C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Mariah Carey, Br ...Show more
Age Of Reagan A History 1974 - 2008 by Sean Wilentz
Category: History
From one of the nation's leading historians comes a powerful reappraisal of American political life since the fall of Nixon. 16-page b&w photo insert.
Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz
Category: Fiction
Growing up in Greenwich Village in the 1960s Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager. Almost half a century later, now a distinguished professor of American history, he revisits Dylan's work with the critical skills of a scholar and the passion of a fan. Drawing partly on his ...Show more
Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz
Category: Music
Growing up in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager. Almost half a century later, now a distinguished professor of American history, he revisits Dylan's work with the critical skills of a scholar and the passion of a fan. Drawing partly on his ...Show more
Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz
Category: Performing Arts
Growing up in Greenwich Village in the 1960s Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager. Almost half a century later, now a distinguished professor of American history, he revisits Dylan?s work with the critical skills of a scholar and the passion of a fan. Drawing partly on his ...Show more
Fred W. Mcdarrah: New York Scenes by Sean Wilentz
Category: Photography
During his 50-year association with the Village Voice, Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) covered the city's downtown scenes, producing an unmatched and encyclopedic visual record of people, movements, and events. McDarrah frequented the bars, caf s, and galleries where writers, artists, and musicians gathere ...Show more
No Property in Man - Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding by Sean Wilentz
Category: History | Series: The\Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage at the nation's founding. The acclaimed political historian Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and ...Show more
Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, the Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 (LOA #330) by Richard Hofstadter; Sean Wilentz (Editor)
Category: Culture
Together for the first time: two masterworks on the undercurrents of the American mind by one of our greatest historians Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and The Paranoid Style in American Politics are two essential works that lay bare the worrying trends of irrationalism, ...Show more
The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics by Sean Wilentz
Category: History
Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that reveal a much-needed vision of American political history. Firstly, partisanship has almost always been a feature of American history and has made possible its greatest social reforms. Secondly, the recent attention to economic inequality has a long history. F ...Show more
William Howard Taft by Lewis H. Lapham; John Morton Blum; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor); Sean Wilentz (Editor); Jeffrey Rosen
Category: Biography | Series: The\American Presidents Ser.
The only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders' vision against new populist threats to American democracyWilliam Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of the United State ...Show more
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