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(0)Morris Dickstein
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English
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Morris Dickstein (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center and a widely published literary and cultural critic. His work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, Partisan Review, The Nation, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. His books include Gates of Eden: American culture in the 1960's, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country
3) The jungle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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A Lithuanian immigrant arrives in America, only to discover hardships and human suffering in the Chicago stockyards instead of wealth, freedom, and opportunity
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America's most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe's work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and political, have had a vigorous afterlife. This posthumous and capacious collection includes twenty-six essays that originally appeared in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic,...