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Hannah Arendt: On Lying and Politics (paperback)
9.50 i
Edward Hirsch: The Heart of American Poetry
19.50 i
The Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois (two volumes)
60.00 i
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s LOA N°341
32.00 i
Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can
16.00 i
American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions
15.00 i
American Women’s Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776–1965 LOA N°332
32.00 i
Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 LOA N°330
32.00 i
Jonathan Schell: The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition, The Unconquerable World LOA N°329
26.00 i
American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
15.00 i
Albert Murray: The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy (paperback & LOA eBook Classic)
12.00 i
Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s LOA N°325
32.00 i
The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life
12.50 i
March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
5.50 i
What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017 (boxed set)
60.00 i
Wendell Berry: Essays 1993-2017 LOA N°317
31.50 i
Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990 LOA N°316
31.50 i
Dance in America: A Reader’s Anthology
14.00 i
Norman Mailer: The Sixties (boxed set)
60.00 i
Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s LOA N°306
31.50 i
Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2013 LOA N°300
31.50 i
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z
16.00 i
Susan Sontag: Later Essays LOA N°292
31.50 i
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs LOA N°284
27.00 i
Virgil Thomson: The State of Music (LOA eBook Classic)
i
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael (paperback)
16.95 i
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar & Peace Writing LOA N°278
17.50 i
Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings LOA N°277
20.00 i
James Baldwin: Complete Fiction & Collected Essays (three volumes)
87.50 i
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber (paperback)
17.95 i
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