About the Author

Neil Jumonville was born in 1952 and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he received his bachelor's degree from Reed College in 1977. He earned a master's degree at Columbia University in 1979 and then worked as an editorial intern at The Nation magazine. In 1987 he received his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Die Zeit, The New Leader , the Journal of American Culture, Boston Review , and Queen's Quarterly . He has taught American intellectual history in the History and Literature program at Harvard. Currently he and his wife, Lynn, live in Tallahassee, Florida, where he is a member of the history department at Florida State University.

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