CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
(Broadview Press) This book begins with a brief history of early Western propaganda, but the core of the book examines…
Huckleberry Friend (Four Fathers, Vol. 2)
(Amazon)The second volume in Harris’ Four Fathers octology, this book continues to follow Joe Cebellum, Fred Etheridge, Tommy Wanderby, and…
Solomon’s Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
(Yale University Press) Though the Enlightenment is known as a time of science and reason, this book reveals the extent…
Technology and Cultural Tectonics: Shifting Values and Meanings
(Palgrave Macmillan) This book explores the challenges and changes to cultural values triggered by technological innovations, such as advances in…
Albert Camus, le souci des autres (Albert Camus: Caring for Others)
(Classiques Garnier) This book pays homage to Camus by closely examining a key aspect of his writing and activism: the…
Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson
(Copper Canyon Press) This is the first complete bilingual translation of the entire Buson Kushu, a comprehensive collection of the…
Five Seven Five Sports: 2012 in Haiku — Language of the Games
(AuthorHouse) Hanson’s 366 haiku depict the most memorable moments from the sports world in 2012 and highlight, one day at…
"Light Horse Harry" Lee In the War for Independence
(The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America) The second in a series on George Washington’s best officers, the book…
Black Dahlia & White Rose
(Harper Collins) Aiming to show the world’s darker side, this book of 11 previously uncollected short stories has a broad…
Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy
(Duke University Press) Through an examination of American and British poetry from the past two centuries, Fuss argues that poetry…
Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830
(Ohio State University Press) Looking at the religious history of the period, Cragwall unsettles the canonical view of Romanticism as…
Italo Calvino, Letters, 1941-1985
(Princeton University Press) Known for his short stories, Italo Calvino was the most-translated contemporary Italian novelist when he died in…
My Education
(Viking) My Education is an erotically charged novel about youthful passion. After graduate student Regina Gottlieb sets foot on the…
Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union: Leadership Style from Polk to Lincoln
(Princeton University Press) Greenstein takes a straightforward look at America’s Civil War-era presidents to show how they contributed to the…
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
(Princeton University Press) An economist who lived through World War II and fought in the Spanish Civil War, Albert O…
Writers Writing Dying
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Williams maintains his candor and social conscience while giving new life to his voice in his…
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez ’96
(Duke University Press) Using original research and fascinating case studies, Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in…