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In this exploration of the relationship between biblical apocalypse and black fiction, Maxine Montgomery argues that American writers see apocalyptic events in an intermediate and secular sense, as a tenable response to racial oppression. This work analyzes the characters, plots, and themes of seven novels that rely on the apocalyptic trope.

The authors provide a comprehensive history of United States nuclear policy from 1940 to 1980 from both military and civilian perspectives. Beginning with the development of the atomic bomb, the first atomic tests and an examination of what Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and their advisers thought about the use of the bomb, they cover the summit meetings at Yalta and Potsdam, the formation of the Atomic Energy Commission, the hydrogen bomb and Eisenhower's...

An anthology of the major developments in American art, beginning with Abstract Expressionism, containing 57 selections by artists.

"The six poets featured in The Wounded Surgeon - Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Delmore Schwartz, and Sylvia Plath - were the most recent constellation of great poets in our history, a group of friends, colleagues, and rivals who changed the face of American literature. Their poems about childhood trauma, madness, and sex shattered taboos about what was acceptable in poetry, inspiring the popular style of poetry now...