American Elegy
Reflections on 250 Years of the Dis-United States of America
$37.06
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
Before there was the United States, there was America. The former is a country, a nation, a geographic reality, but the latter is an idea. Invented more than discovered, “America” signified a revolutionary ideal of freedom, liberty, equality, and justice, what Tom Paine in Common Sense meant when he wrote that “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
Among the greatest expressions of that faith was the Declaration of Independence with its promise to fo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781632461803 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1632461803 |
| Author: | Ed Simon |
| Publisher: | Ig Publishing |
| Imprint: | Ig Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 139mm |
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About The Author
Ed Simon
Ed Simon is the author of over a dozen books, including An Alternative History of Pittsburgh, Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology, and The Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain, named one of the best books of 2024 by The New Yorker.
His essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Poetry, McSweeney’s, Aeon, Jacobin, The New Republic, and The New York Times, among others.
Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding editor of The Pittsburgh Review of Books. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Belt Magazine and Creative Nonfiction Editor at Carnegie Mellon University Press.
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