{"id":81162,"date":"2026-05-01T21:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=81162"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:27:31","slug":"america-a-history-in-verse-volume-2-1940-1961","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/america-a-history-in-verse-volume-2-1940-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"America: A History in Verse, Volume 2 1940-1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u201cSeething Nation! Vast &amp; Flowing! Day &amp; Night &amp; Dawn!\u201d Edward Sanders\u2019 three-volume, <\/span><em><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">America: A History in Verse<\/span><\/em><span class=\"a-text-bold\"> is by turns angry, wistful, defiant and extremely funny re-inventions of historical and biographical worlds, a highly original mix of chronicle, anecdote, document, reportage, paean and polemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Volume 2 1940-1961<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\"> begins and ends with America on the brink of a war and great changes. Sanders\u2019 reinventions of past worlds offer a moving masque of time constructed out of multiple narrative aspects and tones, skillfully and variously implemented by a poetic style of compacted history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Black Sparrow Press; 422 pp. Signed on title page by the author. [YA3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSeething Nation! Vast &amp; Flowing! Day &amp; Night &amp; Dawn!\u201d Edward Sanders\u2019 three-volume, America: A History in Verse is by turns angry, wistful, defiant and extremely funny re-inventions of historical and biographical worlds, a highly original mix of chronicle, anecdote, document, reportage, paean and polemic. Volume 2 1940-1961 begins and ends with America on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":81163,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[104,98,108,369],"product_tag":[1237,725],"class_list":["post-81162","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-history-biographies","product_cat-literature","product_cat-poetry","product_cat-signed-by-author","product_tag-american-history","product_tag-author-signed","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/81162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=81162"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=81162"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=81162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}