David S. Reynolds
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David S. Reynolds, a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author or editor of 17 books, including "Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America," "Abe: Abraham "Lincoln in His Times," "Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America," "Walt Whitman's America," "John Brown, Abolitionist," "Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson," "George Lippard," "Faith in Fiction," and "Beneath the American Renaissance." He is the winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Lincoln Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has been interviewed on shows including NPR's "Fresh Air," "Weekend Edition," and "The Diane Rehm Show," ABC's "The John Batchelor Show," and C-SPAN's "After Words," Brian Lamb's "Book Notes," and "Book TV." He is a regular contributor to "The New York Review of Books" and is included in "Who's Who in America." David Reynolds was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He received the B.A. magna cum laude from Amherst College and the Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught American literature and American Studies at Northwestern University, Barnard College, New York University, Rutgers University, Baruch College, the Sorbonne-Paris III, and, since 2006, at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is desended from 22 "Mayflower" passengers. His wife, Suzanne Nalbantian, is a professor of comparative literature and is the author or editor of six books, including "Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience" and "The Memory Process: Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectives."
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    • Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America
    • By: David S. Reynolds
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 09-06-2026
    • Language: English
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