Product Description: Daniel Robinette’s debut novel, a love letter of sorts to American literature, is a poignant portrait of young artist Marcus Sampson and his lifelong search for beauty, happiness and the American dream.

Product Description: American history is filled with moments of grave moral doubt and institutional crisis, with conflicts over fundamental values, with ethical dilemmas and paradoxes. This volume surveys the moral landscape of the American past from slavery to the Vietnam War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Book by Perry, Lewis

Product Description: Boats Against the Current provides a fascinating account of how American culture emerged from the sheltered, elitist world of the eighteenth century into the dynamic, turbulent civilization that reached full bloom after the Civil War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Nine fresh views of the interconnections of historical, critical, and theoretical scholarship in the field of American rhetoric.Stephen T. Olsen addresses the question of how to determine the disputed authorship of Patrick Henry’s "Liberty or Death" speech of March 23, 1775...read more

Product Description: This historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how important they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to other Americans. Lewis Perry considers intellectuals in their varied historical roles as learned gentlemen, as clergymen and public figures, as professionals, as freelance critics, and as a professoriate...read more

Product Description: "An important, provocative and original work, of great interest to Indian scholars, historians of religions, psychologists and historians of ideas, but accessible also to the cultivated reader. Even if one does not always agree with the author's interpretation, one cannot but admire her vast and precise learning, her splendid translations and exegesis of so many, and so different, Sanskrit texts, and her uninhibited, brilliant, and witty prose...read more