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The Word in Black and White : Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638 ...

The Word in Black and White : Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638 ...

Baton Rouge Dana D. Nelson Assistant Professor of English Louisiana State University - Social Science - 1991 - 208 pages
Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the ...
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National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of ...
Presidential power and American democracy
The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Presidential Power

The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Presidential Power

Gene Healy - Political Science - 2008 - 367 pages
Examines how Americans have expanded presidential power over recent decades by expecting solutions for all national problems, and concludes by calling for the president's role ...
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Violence, the Body, and ""The South"": 2 Violence, Blood & the
Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics

Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics

Russ Castronovo, Dana D. Nelson - Political Science - 2002 - 427 pages
DIVFor the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading ...
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The American Lie: Government by the People and Other Political Fables

The American Lie: Government by the People and Other Political Fables

Benjamin Ginsberg - Political Science - 2013 - 256 pages
Going all the way back to the time of George Washington, much of what we see and hear in the political world consists of lies and deceptions. Despite assurances to the contrary ...
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The Spiral Ascending Path of William Henry Channing: An Autobiographical Letter
Федералист : политические эссе Александра Гамильтона, Джеймса Мэдисона и ...