John Stauffer
Auteur de The State of Jones
A propos de l'auteur
John Stauffer has published numerous articles on photography and social reform in America, and is the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, The Pew Program in Religion and American History, and the Gilder afficher plus Lehrman Institute of American History. His forthcoming book, The Black Hearts of Men, won the 1999 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for the best dissertation in American Studies from the American Studies Association. He is Assistant Professor of English, History and Literature at Harvard University. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de John Stauffer
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American (2015) 55 exemplaires
Robert Stivers: Listening to Cement 4 exemplaires
My Bondage and My Freedom (Modern Library Classics) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Le lac Ontario, trad. J. Brecard, ill. J. Pecnard (1840) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 1,422 exemplaires
The Portable Frederick Douglass (Penguin Classics) (2016) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 69 exemplaires
In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative (2003) — Contributeur — 57 exemplaires
The Future of History: Historians, Historical Organizations, and the Prospects for the Field (2017) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1965
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- Yale University
- Professions
- Professor, Harvard University
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- Évaluation
- 3.9
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- ISBN
- 24
There are a lot of things that couldn't be known by the elderly Knight who is supposedly recounting the story and it is unclear how much of this is known fact or pure conjecture. Other circumstances are told with the uncertainty of a non-fiction but are things that Knight would have definitely known the details of.
Sources are occasionally cited and exact quotes given but often times you are left wondering what is fact and what is conjecture.
What this amounts to is a poorly cited historical account seasoned poorly with small amounts of fiction that detract and confuse at times.
A decent account overall, but not suitable for historical research and not woven well enough into a narrative to be organically entertaining. The book tries to be two things and ends up partially failing at both.… (plus d'informations)