Lexington Books
Pages: 142
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-7362-7 • Hardback • July 2020 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
978-1-4985-7363-4 • eBook • July 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Brian Danoff is associate professor of political science at Miami University
Introduction
1 “I’m the Captain Now”: Power, Justice, and Tragedy in “Benito Cereno” and Captain Phillips
2 Invisible Man and Democratic Leadership
3 “Into the Convulsion of the World”: All the King’s Men, Democratic Leadership, and Political Action
4 The Quiet American and Political Judgment
Conclusion
“Brian Danoff reveals the unparalleled capacity of the novel and film to illuminate the complexity of political life and to foster the moral reflection necessary for democracy. In doing so, Danoff demonstrates that Herman Melville, Ralph Ellison, and Robert Penn Warren are indeed some of America's greatest statesmen.”
— Natalie Fuehrer Taylor, Skidmore College
“Danoff incisively reveals and explores the crucial significance of reading great American literature, and watching great American films, to the success of our unique experiment in self-government. This impressive achievement could not have come at a better time for an American political culture that is in desperate need of resuscitation."
— Adam Seagrave, Arizona State University