Dreaming Up America

Dreaming Up America

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Product Details

Format Hardcover
ISBN-10 1583228381
ISBN-13 978-1-58322-838-8
Publication Date Jun 2008
Nb of pages 176
Dimensions 5.5 x 8.3 in.

Format Paperback
ISBN-10 1-58322-891-8
ISBN-13 978-1-58322-891-3
Publication Date Jan 2010
Nb of pages 144
Illustrations 16
Illustration type Illustrations, black & white
Dimensions 5.3 x 9.3 in.

Description

Bloomsbury Review Editors' Favorite Books of 2008

With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He writes with conversational ease and emotional insight, drawing on contemporary politics, literature, film, and his knowledge of American history.


Additional Materials

Dan Simon speaks with Russell Banks about "Dreaming Up America".



Reviews

Press Reviews

Publishers Weekly
His voice is appealing, and the brevity and scope of his tale are bracing.

New York Times, on Cloudsplitter
Dec 10, 2007
Highly entertaining . . . and deeply affecting. . . . Like the best novels of Nadine Gordimer, it makes us appreciate the dynamic between the personal and the political, the public and the private, and the costs and causes of radical belief.



Experts

"Russell Banks as a novelist has always dared to illuminate the larger issues of human interaction in a society that too often dishonors human rights. Here he gives us a thoughtful and provocative meditation on our history, with a chilling look at what happened to the American dream."
-Howard Zinn

Russell Banks is not only one of our great novelists but also a courageous and visionary citizen who understands
the centrality of race and the magnanimity of democracy. His first nonfiction book is a gem!
-Cornel West

"Russell Banks understands the narratives we invent as Americans to explain ourselves to ourselves. He plummets to the depths of the American soul, holds it up for view and offers in his insights the possibility for atonement."
-Chris Hedges


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