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#23001

Hermann Brück

#23012

Overall Influence

1905 - 2000 (95 years)

Hermann Alexander Brück CBE FRSE was a German-born astronomer, who spent the great portion of his career in various positions in Britain and Ireland. Education Hermann Brück was born in Berlin. His father was Hermann Heinrich Brück and his mother, Margaret.

#23002

Stan Getz

#23013

Overall Influence

1927 - 1991 (64 years)

Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott Yanow as "one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists". Getz performed in bebop and cool jazz groups. Influenced by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim, he also helped popularize bossa nova in the United States with the hit 1964 single "The Girl from Ipanema".

#23003

Richard G. Salomon

#23014

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Richard G. Salomon is the William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington. Salomon is a Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit-languages scholar, known for his studies on Indian epigraphy. He is also a specialist in early Indian Buddhism studies.

#23004

Bill Nighy

#23015

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

William Francis Nighy is an English actor. He started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with The Illuminatus! in 1977. There he gained acclaim for his roles in David Hare's Pravda in 1985, Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 1991, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1993, and Anton Chekov's The Seagull in 1994. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in Blue/Orange in 2001. He made his Broadway debut in Hare's The Vertical Hour in 2006, and returned in the 2015 revival of Hare's Skylight ...

#23005

Ed Markey

#23016

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Edward John Markey is an American lawyer, politician, and former Army reservist serving as the junior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served 20 terms as the U.S. representative for from 1976 to 2013. Before his congressional career, he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976.

#23006

Simon Glendinning

Simon Glendinning

#23017

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Simon Glendinning is an English philosopher. Glendinning is Professor of European Philosophy and Head of department in the European Institute at the London School of Economics. Academic career Glendinning studied philosophy at the University of Oxford and at the University of York, since which he has held a series of positions:1993–1997: Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Kent1997–2004: Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Reading2004–2013: Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE2014–present: Professor of European Philosophy, European Institut...

#23007

Patton Oswalt

#23018

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Patton Oswalt is an American actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter. His acting roles include Spence Olchin in the sitcom The King of Queens and narrating the sitcom The Goldbergs as adult Adam F. Goldberg. After making his acting debut in the Seinfeld episode "The Couch", he has appeared in a variety of television series, such as Parks and Recreation, Community, Two and a Half Men, Drunk History, Reno 911!, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Archer, Veep, Justified, Kim Possible, Modern Family, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He portrayed Principal Ralph Durbin in A.P. Bio and Matthew the Raven in ...

#23008

Kanneboyina Nagaraju

#23019

Overall Influence

Kanneboyina Nagaraju is a medical scientist and immunologist who is credited with creating the MHC Class I transgenic mouse model for autoimmune myositis. Nagaraju is also credited with identifying novel glucocorticoid analogs with reduced side effect profiles in collaboration with Eric Hoffman and John McCall. He led international efforts to improve rigor and reproducibility of preclinical drug trials and phenotyping in neuromuscular disease models.

#23009

Tim Soutphommasane

Tim Soutphommasane

#23020

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Thinethavone "Tim" Soutphommasane is an Australian academic, social commentator and former public servant. He was Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission from 2013 to 2018. He has previously been a political staffer for Bob Carr, a columnist with The Age and The Australian newspapers, a lecturer at Sydney and Monash Universities, and a research fellow with the Per Capita think tank. He is a member of the board of the National Australia Day Council, and an ex officio member of the Council for Multicultural Australia.

#23010

Geoffrey Harcourt

#23021

Overall Influence

1931 - 2021 (90 years)

Geoffrey Colin Harcourt was an Australian academic economist and leading member of the post-Keynesian school. He studied at the University of Melbourne and then at King's College, Cambridge. Biography After studying economics at the University of Melbourne he moved to the University of Cambridge, where he received his doctorate. In 1958, he moved to the University of Adelaide as a lecturer and was appointed to a chair in Economics at Adelaide in 1967. . He was a University Lecturer and Reader in the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge and a Fellow and College Lecturer in Economics, Jesus Col...

#23011

Joëlle Pineau

#23022

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Joëlle Pineau is a Canadian computer scientist and associate professor at McGill University. She is the lead of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research lab in Montreal, Quebec. Early life and education Pineau was born in 1974 in Ottawa, Ontario. She played the viola in the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. She eventually studied engineering at the University of Waterloo. She completed her postgraduate education in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. A chapter of Pineau's Masters thesis, Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs, has been published and cited almost 1,000 times.

#23012

John F. C. Turner

#23023

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

John Francis Charlewood Turner was a British architect and theorist known for his work on informal self-help housing and neighbourhood building in Peru, the United States, and the United Kingdom. His work on housing in the 1960s and 1970s has seen him described as the most influential post-war writer on housing in the developing world and as a "principal architect" in United Nations and World Bank policies on self-help urban assistance to developing countries. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1988 for "championing the rights of people to build, manage and sustain their own shelter...

#23013

Thomas Honegger

#23024

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Thomas Honegger is a scholar of literature, known especially for his studies of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Biography Thomas Honegger has an MA in English Studies, Medieval Germanic Languages, and Medieval German Literature from the University of Zurich. He then worked in that university's Department of English as an assistant. He took his PhD in 1996 on the subject of "Animals in Medieval English Literature". He worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Zurich. He had temporary postings at the univ...

#23014

Hayley Williams

#23025

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Hayley Nichole Williams is an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band Paramore, in which she also plays the keyboards. Williams was born and raised in Meridian, Mississippi. Her parents divorced when she was 13 and she moved with her mother to Franklin, Tennessee, where she later formed Paramore alongside Josh Farro, Zac Farro, and Jeremy Davis. Paramore has released six studio albums: All We Know Is Falling , Riot! , Brand New Eyes , Paramore , After Laughter , and This Is Why . It has featured a continuously changing line-up with Williams being th...

#23015

Trey Ideker

#23026

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Trey Ideker is a professor of medicine and bioengineering at UC San Diego. He is the Director of the National Resource for Network Biology, the San Diego Center for Systems Biology, and the Cancer Cell Map Initiative. He uses genome-scale measurements to construct network models of cellular processes and disease.

#23016

James S. Langer

#23027

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

James S. Langer is an American professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934, Langer graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1951. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Birmingham, earning a B.A. in physics from the former in 1955 and a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from the latter in 1958. A Marshall Scholar at Birmingham, his thesis advisor was Rudolf Peierls. After receiving his doctorate, he began his career in the physics department at the Carnegie Institute of Technology , where he would stay until 1982.

#23017

Marianna Csörnyei

#23028

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Marianna Csörnyei is a Hungarian mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Chicago. She does research in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and geometric nonlinear functional analysis. She proved the equivalence of the zero measure notions of infinite dimensional Banach spaces.

#23018

Glen Elder

#23029

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Glen Holl Elder, Jr. is an American sociologist who is the Howard W. Odum Research Professor of Sociology , a research professor of Psychology and a current professor at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are in social psychology, sociology, demographics and life course research. Elder's major work was Children of the Great Depression: Social Change in Life Experience, in 1974. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences admitted Glen H. Elder in 1988. In 1993, he was honored with the Cooley-Mead Award by the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association.

#23019

John Ehrenreich

#23030

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

John Ehrenreich is an American clinical psychologist and social critic, who has published books on health policy, humanitarian policy, US history and US social policy. He is known for his development of the idea of the "medical–industrial complex" and the concept of the "professional–managerial class".

#23020

Bridget Stutchbury

#23031

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Bridget J. Stutchbury is a Canadian biologist, currently a Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology at York University. She is the author of the book Silence of the Songbirds, finalist for the 2007 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.

#23021

Hugh N. Kennedy

#23032

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Hugh Nigel Kennedy is a British medieval historian and academic. He specialises in the history of the early Islamic Middle East, Muslim Iberia and the Crusades. From 1997 to 2007, he was Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London.

#23022

Martha Ratliff

#23033

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Martha Ratliff is an American linguist and Professor Emerita at Wayne State University. She is a leading specialist in Hmong–Mien languages and also notable for her reconstruction of Proto-Hmong–Mien.

#23023

Robert Palladino

#23034

Overall Influence

1932 - 2016 (84 years)

Robert Joseph Palladino was an American Trappist monk, calligrapher, and academic. He was a professor at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he taught Steve Jobs, and replaced Lloyd J. Reynolds as the head of the calligraphy program. Jobs credits Palladino's class with inspiring him to include multiple fonts on the original Mac. Despite his influence on Jobs, Palladino never owned a computer.

#23024

Jeff Ament

#23035

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Jeffrey Allen Ament is an American musician best known as the bassist of rock band Pearl Jam, which he co-founded alongside Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder. Ament wrote or co-wrote many of Pearl Jam's hits, including "Jeremy", "Oceans", "Dissident", "Nothingman" and "Nothing as It Seems".

#23025

George Burley

#23036

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

George Elder Burley is a Scottish former football player and manager. He had a professional career spanning 21 years as a player, making 628 league appearances and earning 11 Scotland caps. His most successful spell came while at Ipswich Town making 394 senior appearances, and being part of the squad that won the FA Cup and UEFA Cup in 1978 and 1981 respectively.

#23026

Gabriel Leung

#23037

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Gabriel Matthew Leung is a Hong Kong physician and epidemiologist, currently serving as the executive director of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. From 2013 to 2022, he was the longest-serving Dean of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, where he was also the inaugural Helen and Francis Zimmern Professor in Population Health. Formerly, he was Hong Kong's first Under Secretary for Food and Health and fifth Director of the Office of the Chief Executive at the Government of Hong Kong.

#23027

Alan R. Battersby

Alan R. Battersby

#23038

Overall Influence

1925 - 2018 (93 years)

Sir Alan Rushton Battersby was an English organic chemist best known for his work to define the chemical intermediates in the biosynthetic pathway to vitamin B12 and the reaction mechanisms of the enzymes involved. His research group was also notable for its synthesis of radiolabelled precursors to study alkaloid biosynthesis and the stereochemistry of enzymic reactions. He won numerous awards including the Royal Medal in 1984 and the Copley Medal in 2000. He was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours. Battersby died in February 2018 at the age of 92.

#23028

Bruce Weir

#23039

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Bruce Spencer Weir is a New Zealand biostatistician and statistical geneticist. He is Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. He was previously the William Neal Reynolds Professor of statistics and genetics and director of the Bioinformatics Research Center at North Carolina State University. He is known within academia for his research in statistical and forensic genetics, and outside academia for testifying in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1995.

#23029

Catherine L. Mann

#23040

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Catherine L. Mann is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. Before her appointment, she was the global chief economist at Citi from 2018 until 2021. She was also the chief economist at the OECD.

#23030

Yitzhak Katznelson

#23041

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Yitzhak Katznelson is an Israeli mathematician. Katznelson was born in Jerusalem. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Paris in 1956. He is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.

#23031

Frank van Harmelen

Frank van Harmelen

#23042

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Frank van Harmelen is a Dutch computer scientist and professor in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning in the AI department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He was scientific director of the LarKC project , "aiming to develop the Large Knowledge Collider, a platform for very large scale semantic web reasoning."

#23032

Henry F. May

#23043

Overall Influence

1915 - 2012 (97 years)

Henry Farnum May was an American historian and Margaret Byrne Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley. Life Henry May was the son of Henry F. May, a lawyer, and May May. Born in Denver, Colorado, he was reared in Berkeley, California, and spent a formative year in Europe with his family as the youngest of three children. He married Jean Louise Terrace on June 18, 1941, and they had two children. He earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. May was an instructor of history at Lawrence College from 1941 to ...

#23033

Gerald J. Popek

#23044

Overall Influence

1946 - 2008 (62 years)

Gerald John "Jerry" Popek was an American computer scientist, known for his research on operating systems and virtualization. With Robert P. Goldberg he proposed the Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements, a set of conditions necessary for a computer architecture to support system virtualization.

#23034

Richard K. Ashley

#23045

Overall Influence

Richard K. Ashley is a postmodernist scholar of International relations. He is an associate professor at the Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies. Ashley studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He was research assistant to Hayward Alker. Initially, Ashley's research was on the balance of power in international relations, particularly in his The Political Economy of War and Peace . He soon began to shift his approach to metatheoretical questions and Critical Theory. By the mid-1980s, Ashley had adopted a p...

#23035

Jim Tressel

#23046

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

James Patrick Tressel is an American college football coach and university administrator who served as president of Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio from 2014 to 2023. Before becoming an administrator, Tressel was the head football coach of the Youngstown State Penguins and later the Ohio State Buckeyes in a career that spanned from 1986 until 2010. Tressel's teams earned several national championships during the course of his career, earning him numerous accolades.

#23036

José Míguez Bonino

José Míguez Bonino

#23047

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

José Míguez Bonino was an Argentine Methodist theologian. Biography Bonino was raised in the Methodist Church, and participated actively in this denomination since his youth. He studied theology at a university in Buenos Aires between 1943 and 1948. He worked in church ministries in Bolivia, and after obtaining his degree he was a pastor in Mendoza. Bonino traveled to the United States to pursue a master's degree at the Candler School of Theology in Atlanta. In 1954, he became a professor of dogmatic theology in Buenos Aires. In 1958, he left teaching to pursue further study at Union Theologi...

#23037

George Anastasia

#23048

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

George Anastasia is an American author and former writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is widely considered to be an expert on the American Mafia. He was an organized crime investigative reporter, who was once targeted for death by then-Philadelphia crime family boss John Stanfa. He won the Sigma Delta Chi Award and has also been described on a 60 Minutes television profile as "One of the most respected crime reporters in the country." Anastasia lives in Pitman, New Jersey.

#23038

Sergiy Vilkomir

Sergiy Vilkomir

#23049

Overall Influence

1956 - 2020 (64 years)

Sergiy A. Vilkomir was a Ukrainian-born computer scientist. Sergiy Vilkomir was born in 1956 in present-day Ukraine. He finished Mathematical College at the Moscow State University National Mathematical Boarding High School no. 18 , studied for an MSc degree in Mathematics and Mathematics Education at Kharkov State University , and for a PhD degree at Kharkov Polytechnic Institute . In Kharkiv, Ukraine, he then worked at the Ukrainian Polytechnic Institute , the Central Institute of Complex Automation , the Institute of Safety and Reliability of Technological Systems , the Ukrainian State Scientific and Technical Centre on Nuclear and Radiation Safety .

#23039

Mike Sherman

#23050

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Michael Francis Sherman is an American gridiron football coach and former player who most recently was the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League . He was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League from 2000 to 2005. Sherman led the Packers to five consecutive winning seasons from 2000 to 2004 and three divisional titles in 2002, 2003, and 2004, but never advanced past the divisional round of the playoffs. He was also the head football coach at Texas A&M University from 2008 to 2011. He has also been a coach in the NFL for the Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans and Miami Dolphins.

#23040

Gianni Vattimo

#23051

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Gianteresio Vattimo was an Italian philosopher and politician. Biography Gianteresio Vattimo was born in Turin, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under the existentialist Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin, and graduated with a laurea in 1959. In 1963 he moved to Heidelberg and studied with Karl Löwith, Habermas and Hans-Georg Gadamer with a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Then, Vattimo returned to Turin where he became assistant professor in 1964, and later full professor of Aesthetics in 1969. While remaining at Turin, becoming Professor of Theoretical Philosoph...

#23041

Linda M. Godwin

Linda M. Godwin

#23052

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Linda Maxine Godwin is an American scientist and retired NASA astronaut. Godwin joined NASA in 1980 and became an astronaut in July 1986. She retired in 2010. During her career, Godwin completed four space flights and logged over 38 days in space. Godwin also served as the assistant to the director for exploration, Flight Crew Operations Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. Since retiring from NASA, she accepted the position of professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri.

#23042

Mateja Matevski

Mateja Matevski

#23053

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

Mateja Matevski was a Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist, and translator. Career Matevski was born on 13 March 1929 in Istanbul, Turkey to an Albanian family of the Eastern Orthodox rite. His family resided temporarily in Turkey for work. Matevski graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. He worked as a journalist for Macedonian Radio and Television, editor of the cultural and literary programme, editor-in-chief and director of the Television as well as Director General of the Radio Television Skopje. He also held the function of president of the commission for cultural relations abroad and was a member of the presidency of SR Macedonia.

#23043

Kim Stafford

#23054

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Kim Robert Stafford is an American poet and essayist who lives in Portland, Oregon. Early life and education Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Stafford is the son of poet William Stafford. He earned a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts in English, and Ph.D. in medieval literature from the University of Oregon.

#23044

Clyde Cook

#23055

Overall Influence

1935 - 2008 (73 years)

Clyde Cook served as president of Biola University in La Mirada, California, from 1982 to 2007. Early life and education Cook was born to Capt. Archibald Cook, a former sea captain, and Frances "Fanny" Emerick Wight Cook on June 1, 1935, in Hong Kong, the fourth of six children, and a third generation missionary. During World War II, his family was imprisoned in three different concentration camps. In 1942 he was reunited with his poverty stricken family in South Africa.

#23045

Samuel Mockbee

#23056

Overall Influence

1944 - 2001 (57 years)

Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama. After establishing a regular architectural practice in his native Mississippi, Mockbee became interested in the design and construction problems associated with rural housing in Alabama and Mississippi. Soon after joining the faculty of Auburn, Mockbee established the Rural Studio with educator Dennis K. Ruth to provide practical training for architecture students in an environment where their efforts could address the problems of poverty and substandard housing in underserved areas of the southern United States.

#23046

Paramasivam Natarajan

#23057

Overall Influence

1940 - 2016 (76 years)

Paramasivam Natarajan was an Indian photochemist, the INSA Senior Scientist at the National Centre for Ultrafast Process of the University of Madras and the director of Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. He was known for his researches on photochemistry of co-ordination compounds and macromolecular dye coatings for stabilization of electrodes and was an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the Indian Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific an...

#23047

William G. Moseley

#23058

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

William G. Moseley is an American academic. He is the DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, and director of the Food, Agriculture & Society Program at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His research interests include tropical agriculture, food security, and development policy. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles, as well as eight books. In 2013 he won the Media Award, and in 2016 the Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang Distinguished Africa Scholar Award, both from the American Association of Geographers. He serves on the International Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of...

#23048

David Hollenbach

#23059

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, professor, author, and moral theologian currently serving as the Pedro Arrupe Distinguished Research Professor of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is a consultant to the Jesuit Refugee Service and is the recipient of the John Courtney Murray Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America in 1998.

#23049

Bryan W. Van Norden

#23060

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Bryan W. Van Norden is an American translator of Chinese philosophical texts and scholar of Chinese and comparative philosophy. He has taught for twenty five years at Vassar College, United States, where he is currently the James Monroe Taylor Chair in Philosophy. From 2017 to 2020, he was the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

#23050

Donald E. Pease

#23061

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Donald E. Pease is the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, chair of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, professor of English and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. He is an Americanist, literary and cultural critic, and academic. He has been a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1977 or 1978. He was the founding editor of the New Americanist Series at Duke University Press and editor of the Re-Encountering Colonialism Series and Re-Mapping the Transnational Turn: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies for the University Press of New England .

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