The war on words
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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