"Nation, The", 1865-1900: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture - Tapa dura

An anthology, taken from "The Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture", which forms a historical commentary, documenting a legacy of independent, critical and animated writing on politics, social and cultural events throughout the period. Writers and artists covered in the book include Henry James, Ezra Pound, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Henry Miller, Hannah Arendt, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath and Martin Luther King Jnr. The political essays address issues of civil rights, foreign policy and social change. Modern revolutions in art, literature and culture are covered by international writers and critics and the anthology is completed by a collection of poetry.

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