The war on words

Michael T. Gilmore

earliest edition we have, 2010 University of Chicago Press, 2010

"The War on Words delivers an impressively wide ranging reinterpretation, at once rigorously astringent and perceptively sympathetic, of how canonical American writers coped with the formidable challenges not to engage in public talk about slavery and racism. Though some of Gilmore's assessments are bound to provoke controversy, no serious reader of this bookùwhich should indeed be required reading for all serious Am...

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War on Words edition · 2013 · University of Chicago Press · 344 pages · 9780226101699
War on Words edition · 2010 · University of Chicago Press · 9781282710702
War on Words edition · 2010 · University of Chicago Press · 9780226294155
The war on words edition · 2010 · University of Chicago Press · 330 pages · 9780226294131

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