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| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Dante in America: The First Hundred Years | 16 | |
| The Material Melville: Shaping Readers' Horizons | 52 | |
| Judging Literary Books by Their Covers: House Styles, Ticknor and Fields, and Literary Promotion | 75 | |
| Literature in Newsprint: Antebellum Family Newspapers and the Uses of Reading | 101 | |
| Manufacturing Intellectual Equipment: The Tauchnitz Edition of The Marble Faun | 117 | |
| Finding His Mark: Twain's The Innocents Abroad as a Subscription Book | 151 | |
| Defining the National Pantheon: The Making of Houghton Mifflin's Biographical Series, 1880-1900 | 179 | |
| Materiality as Performance: The Forming of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona | 223 | |
| Packaging Literature for the High Schools: From the Riverside Literature Series to Literature and Life | 248 | |
| Contributors | 277 | |
| Index | 279 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Barbara Litt
reviewed Reading Books : Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America on June 09, 2014
Reading Books
A story beautifully told, Peter Grose's biography of Allen Dulles is one of the most accurate books ever written concerning the birth of modern espionage. Compelling, accurate, non-fiction books on intelligence are rare, and this particular piece of work is one of the few that pass historians' tests.
The book follows an urbane member of the American Establishment on his romantic quest to create the most sophisticated espionage organization the world has ever known. The grandson of a Secretary of State, and brother of a Secretary of Defense, he quite possibly made more of an impact on the current shape of our world than either, without a public profile. An incurable romantic, he brought Kipling's Kim with him on the night he went into the hospital to die.
Peter Grose was the ideal biographer for so elusive a subject.
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