{"product_id":"home-in-america-on-loss-and-retrieval-9780674057715","title":"Home in America: On Loss and Retrieval","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of home, through explorations literary and political, philosophical and deeply personal, by the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eLoneliness as a Way of Life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHome as an imagined refuge. Home as a place of mastery and domination. Home as a destination and the place we try to escape from. Thomas Dumm explores these distinctively American understandings of home. He takes us from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Henry David Thoreau's Walden to Laura Ingalls Wilder's little house on the prairie and Emily Dickinson's homestead, and finally to the house Herman Wallace imagined and that sustained him during his forty-one years of solitary confinement at Angola State Penitentiary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDumm argues that it is impossible to separate the comforting and haunting aspects of home. Each chapter reveals a different dimension of the American experience of home: slavery at Monticello, radical individuality at Walden, Indian-hating in the pioneer experience, and the power of remembering and imagining home in extreme confinement as a means of escape. Hidden in these homes are ghosts--enslaved and imprisoned African Americans, displaced and massacred Native Americans, subordinated homemakers, all struggling to compose their lives in a place called home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFramed by a prologue on Dad and an epilogue on Mom, in which the author reflects on his own experiences growing up in western Pennsylvania with young parents in a family of nine children, \u003ci\u003eHome in America\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful meditation on the richness and poverty of an idea that endures in the world we have made.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Dumm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674057715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDumm, Thomas:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Thomas Dumm is William H. Hastie '25 Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the author of \u003ci\u003eLoneliness as a Way of Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard), \u003ci\u003eA Politics of the Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDemocracy and Punishment: Disciplinary Origins of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43128124211315,"sku":"9.78067E+12","price":50.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ae49151c-abf8-4669-84b8-cbb3a5855ae8.jpg?v=1749731015","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/home-in-america-on-loss-and-retrieval-9780674057715","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}