There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. "A Pinnacle of Feeling" is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency[...]
In "Gumshoe America", Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to con[...]
Hundreds of quotations from the most quotable Irishman ever. A fantastic selection in a new hardback edition.[...]