Bøker av T. Walter Herbert

The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness, was also a scene of revulsion and combat. This book reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment.

The American invasion of Iraq was largely governed by faith-based policy. The "shock and Awe" strategy, alongside a grossly mismanaged occupation, led to the loss of American lives.'Faith-Based War' presents an analysis of the imperialist Christian militarism behind the Bush Administration.

In materials as diverse as Hannah Foster's post-Revolutionary War novel The Coquette and the Coen brothers' 1996 movie Fargo, this book taps into popular culture and high art alike to outline the logic of American manhood's violent streak--and its dire consequences for a culture with truly democratic and egalitarian ambitions.