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Book Title: Making Liberalism New: American Intellectuals, Modern Litera...
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.8in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Ian Afflerbach
Publication Name: Making Liberalism New : American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
