DAVID S. REYNOLDS is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York. He received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Rutgers University, New York University, Barnard College, and Northwestern University. His Walt Whitman's America won the Bancroft Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Beneath the American Renaissance won Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss.
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“Provocative . . . [E]ssential reading for today’s polarized times.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “Reynolds sheds light on a cultural collision that shaped early America up to the Civil War and beyond. . . . Engrossing.” ... SEE MORE