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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
32.00 i
American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
24.00 i
Albert Murray: The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy (paperback)
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
18.95 i
March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
15.95 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
25.00 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
33.75 i
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs LOA N°284
33.75 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
35.00 i
James Baldwin: Complete Fiction & Collected Essays (three volumes)
84.00 i
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber (paperback)
17.95 i
Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now (paperback)
17.50 i
Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics LOA N°263
32.00 i
Philip Roth at 80: A Celebration
6.50 i
Art in America 1945–1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism LOA N°259
20.00 i
Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940–1954 LOA N°258
33.75 i
Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now (hardcover) LOA N°251
17.50 i
The Cool School: Writing from America’s Hip Underground
19.50 i
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