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Concern with the white male body - with exhibiting it and with the perils to it - suffused American culture in the years before World War I, he suggests, and co
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A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, s
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An important new work from one of our premier cultural historians. "Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man" considers the surprisingly complex evolution in repres
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A major theme in American history has been the desire to achieve a genuinely republican way of life that values liberty, order, and virtue. This work shows us h