Imagining a Great Republic: Political Novels and the Idea of America

by Thomas E Cronin

Book Overview

In the first comprehensive reading of dozens of American literary and social culture classics, Tom Cronin, one of America's most astute students of the American political tradition, tells the story of the American political experiment through the eyes of forty major novelists, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Hunter S. Thompson. They have been moral and civic consciousness-raisers as we have navigated the zigs and zags, the successes and setbacks, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538105713
• ISBN13: 9781538105719
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"