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American History Revised
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Authors: Seymour Morris, Jr.
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“American History Revised is as informative as it is entertaining and humorous. Filled with irony, surprises, and long-hidden secrets, the book does more than
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
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Authors: Reinhold Niebuhr
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The Politics of Irony in American Modernism
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The Politics of Irony in American Modernism traces how "irony" emerged as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices in American
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Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s main