ISBN:
9780807835012
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9780807869277 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
296 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780807869277
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
303.60973
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change. Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose ...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
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