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This all-encompassing encyclopedia provides a broad perspective on U.S. politics, culture, and society, but also goes beyond the facts to consider the myths, id

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of litera

Realizing Dewey's vision of making public schools the seedbed of a democratic society.

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