Preserving and honoring the intellectual voice that spoke with the urgency, generosity, and grace of the best of humanity
This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world’s population has been transformed into a society of refugees and émigrés seeking –indeed, demanding– an alternative way of political belonging.
Argues that Herman Melville's later work presciently anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the US-led global war on terror.