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Past Massey Lecturers and Books

(available through Harvard University Press)

Eudora Welty
One Writer's Beginnings
(1984)
  Irving Howe
The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson
(1986)
Lawrence W. Levine
Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in American
(1988)
Conor Cruise O'Brien
God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism
(1988)
David Brion Davis
Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations
(1990)
Toni Morrison
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
(1992)
Gore Vidal
Screening History
(1992)
Eugene D. Genovese
The Southern Tradition
(1994)
Alfred Kazin
Writing Was Everything
(1995)
Stephen L. Carter
The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty
(1996)
Richard Rorty
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
(1997)
Andrew Delbanco
The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope
(1999)
Maxine Hong Kingston
To Be The Poet
(2000)
E.L. Doctorow
Reporting the Universe
(2003)
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Architecture as Signs and Systems: For A Mannerist Time
(2004)
John Demos
Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America
(2004)

Graduate Program in the History of American Civilization
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