Overview :Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984), an accomplished writer and director of television westerns, did not attract media attention until the release of ... Read More
Overview :An insightful guide to the life and literary career of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) pushed the boundar... Read More
Overview :A History of Virginian Literature chronicles a story that has been more than four hundred years in the making. It looks at the development o... Read More
Overview :Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering... Read More
Overview :Herman Melville is hailed as one of the greats--if not the greatest--of American literature. Born in New York in 1819, he first achieved rec... Read More
Overview :In Poe and the Printed Word Kevin Hayes reappraises the work of Edgar Allan Poe in the context of nineteenth-century print culture. Hayes ex... Read More
Overview :To many observers, folklore and book culture may appear to be opposites. Folklore, after all, involves orally circulated stories and traditi... Read More
Overview :Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This ... Read More
Overview :Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical... Read More
Overview :An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the books he read and his soc... Read More
Overview :Cyclotourism has recently risen to prominence with growing national media coverage and thousands of participants taking to America's roadway... Read More
Overview :When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds ... Read More
Overview :Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer, a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical... Read More
Overview : The Mind of a Patriot presents an intellectual life of a major figure who has traditionally been seen as an anti-intellectual "child of nat... Read More
Overview :This Companion consists of 14 essays by leading international scholars. They provide a series of new perspectives on one of the most enigmat... Read More
Overview :In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706 1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew hi... Read More
Overview :A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf represents a significant contribution to the study of the intellectual life of women in British North America. ... Read More