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Tenacious of Life
Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case
for considering John James Audubon's and John Bachman's quadruped
essays as worthy of literary analysis and redefine the role of
Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays. After
completing The Birds of America (1826-38), Audubon began
developing his work on the mammals. The Viviparous Quadrupeds
of North America volumes show an antebellum view of nature as
fundamentally dynamic and simultaneously grotesque and
awe-inspiring. The quadruped essays are rich with good stories
about these mammals and the humans who observe, pursue, and admire
them. For help with the science and the essays, Audubon enlisted
the Reverend John Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina. While he
has been acknowledged as coauthor of the essays, Bachman has
received little attention as an American nature writer. While
almost all works that describe the history of American nature
writing include Audubon, Bachman shows up only in a subordinate
clause or two. Tenacious of Life strives to restore
Bachman's status as an important American nature writer. Patterson
and Russell analyze the coauthorial dance between the voices of
Audubon, an experienced naturalist telling adventurous hunting
stories tinged often by sentiment, romanticism, and bombast, and of
Bachman, the courteous gentleman naturalist, scientific detective,
moralist, sometimes cruel experimenter, and humorist. Drawing on
all the primary and secondary evidence, Patterson and Russell tell
the story of the coauthors' fascinating, conflicted relationship.
This collection offers windows onto the early United States and
much forgotten lore, often in the form of travel writing, natural
history, and unique anecdotes, all told in the compelling voices of
Antebellum America's two leading naturalists.
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The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon
Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have been destroyed by his granddaughter Maria Rebecca Audubon. Daniel Patterson is the first scholar to locate and assemble three important fragments of the 1843 Missouri River journals, and here he offers a stunning transcription and critical edition of Audubon's last journey through the American West.Patterson's new edition of the journals-unknown to Audubon scholars and fans-offers a significantly different understanding of the very core of Audubon's life and work. Readers will be introduced to a more authentic Audubon, one who was concerned about the disappearance of America's wild animal species and yet also loved to hunt and display his prowess in the wilderness. This edition reveals that Audubon's famous late conversion to conservationism on this expedition was, in fact, a literary fiction. Maria Rebecca Audubon created this myth when she rewrote her grandfather's journals for publication to make him into a visionary conservationist. In reality the journals detail almost gratuitous hunting predations throughout the course of Audubon's last expedition.
The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubonis the definitive presentation of America's most famous naturalist on his last expedition and assesses Audubon's actual environmental ethic amid his conflicted relationship with the natural world he so admired and depicted in his iconic works.
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Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process
The 2008 U.S. presidential campaign has provided a lifetime's worth of surprises. Once again, however, the nomination process highlighted the importance of organization, political prowess, timing, and money. And once again, it raised many hackles. The Democratic contest in particular generated many complaints—for example, it started too early, it was too long, and Super Tuesday was overloaded. This timely book synthesizes new analysis by premier political scientists into a cohesive look at the presidential nomination process—the ways in which it is broken and how it might be fixed.
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