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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781594039256
Format: Cloth over boards
Year: 2017
Publisher: Encounter Books
Description:
Past and Presentbrings together newly collected essays by the distinguished American historian and cultural critic, Gertrude Himmelfarb. Their common theme is the intriguing, often unexpected ways in which the past illuminates the present.
The novelist William Faulkner wrote that "The past is never dead. It's not even past." In these essays, Himmelfarb shows the truth of this statement. She helps us find a new perspective on contemporary issues by bringing to bear a trenchant analysis of debates and thinkers of the past. She allowsthe past to inform the present without distorting either past or present.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781594039256
Format: Cloth over boards
Year: 2017
Publisher: Encounter Books
Description:
Past and Presentbrings together newly collected essays by the distinguished American historian and cultural critic, Gertrude Himmelfarb. Their common theme is the intriguing, often unexpected ways in which the past illuminates the present.
The novelist William Faulkner wrote that "The past is never dead. It's not even past." In these essays, Himmelfarb shows the truth of this statement. She helps us find a new perspective on contemporary issues by bringing to bear a trenchant analysis of debates and thinkers of the past. She allowsthe past to inform the present without distorting either past or present.