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From The Dregs of the Day by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, page 35. Fabulous Monsters CHARACTER DOODLES BY ALBERTO MANGUEL: An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world’s most eminent bibliophiles September | Literature/Books about Books Hardcover 978-0-300-24738-1 $19.95/£14.99 3 224 pp. 6 x 7 ⁄4 Photo © Melik Kulekci. 38 b/w illus. “[Manguel] is a master of the art of reading.”—MAGGIE FERGUSON, FROM THE PREFACE: INTELLIGENT LIFE (THE ECONOMIST) Perhaps one of the main attractions of these fabulous is a writer, monsters is their multiple and ALBERTO MANGUEL translator, editor, and critic, but would Fabulous Monsters changing identities. Rooted rather define himself as a reader. His Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends in their own histories, fictional previous books include The Library at Night and Packing My Library. Born Alberto Manguel characters cannot be caged in Buenos Aires, he now lives in New between the covers of their York City. Charmingly written in his signature engaging erudite style, Alberto Manguel books, however brief or vast examines how literary characters can have changing identities, and can that space might be. The suddenly shift from behind their conventional stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and life. experience of the world—love, death, friendship, loss, gratitude, In this personal reckoning with his favorite characters, including Jim from bewilderment, anguish and fear— Huckleberry Finn, Phoebe from The Catcher in the Rye, Job and Jonah from the Bible, Quasimodo, the Hippogriff, Little Red Riding Hood, Captain Nemo, all these and my own changing Hamlet’s mother, and Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster, the author shares his unique identity, I’ve learned from the powers as a reader, encouraging us to establish our own unique literary rela- imaginary characters that I’ve met tionships. An intimate introduction and Manguel’s own “doodles” complete this delightfully magical book. throughout my readings, much more than through my shadowy face in the mirror or my reflection in the eyes of others. 4 GENERAL INTEREST An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world’s most eminent bibliophiles September | Literature/Books about Books Hardcover 978-0-300-24738-1 $19.95/£14.99 3 224 pp. 6 x 7 ⁄4 Photo © Melik Kulekci. 38 b/w illus. “[Manguel] is a master of the art of reading.”—MAGGIE FERGUSON, FROM THE PREFACE: INTELLIGENT LIFE (THE ECONOMIST) Perhaps one of the main attractions of these fabulous is a writer, monsters is their multiple and ALBERTO MANGUEL translator, editor, and critic, but would Fabulous Monsters changing identities. Rooted rather define himself as a reader. His Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends in their own histories, fictional previous books include The Library at Night and Packing My Library. Born Alberto Manguel characters cannot be caged in Buenos Aires, he now lives in New between the covers of their York City. Charmingly written in his signature engaging erudite style, Alberto Manguel books, however brief or vast examines how literary characters can have changing identities, and can that space might be. The suddenly shift from behind their conventional stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and life. experience of the world—love, death, friendship, loss, gratitude, In this personal reckoning with his favorite characters, including Jim from bewilderment, anguish and fear— Huckleberry Finn, Phoebe from The Catcher in the Rye, Job and Jonah from the Bible, Quasimodo, the Hippogriff, Little Red Riding Hood, Captain Nemo, all these and my own changing Hamlet’s mother, and Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster, the author shares his unique identity, I’ve learned from the powers as a reader, encouraging us to establish our own unique literary rela- imaginary characters that I’ve met tionships. An intimate introduction and Manguel’s own “doodles” complete this delightfully magical book. throughout my readings, much more than through my shadowy face in the mirror or my reflection in the eyes of others. GENERAL INTEREST 5 Lakota America The first comprehensive A CONVERSATION WITH history of the Lakota Indians PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN and their profound role in shaping America’s history What brought you to the study of Native American history? I have always been interested in marginalized and underrepresented groups, October | History and when I decided to specialize in American history, in my native Finland, I Hardcover 978-0-300-21595-3 began to wonder how American Indians fitted into the larger story of Amer- $35.00/£25.00 1 1 ica. This was in the 1980s, and the Indians were still often portrayed as victims 576 pp. 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 of colonialism and U.S. westward expansion; they were fringe figures whose 54 b/w illus. history was defined by disappearance and loss. I struggled to reconcile this trope of victimization with the histories of the powerful nomadic Native con- ■ THE LAMAR SERIES IN WESTERN HISTORY federations that emerged in the West and beat the U.S. Army in the battlefield time and again. I thought there was a huge gap in our understanding of Native Americans and their capacity to shape their own destinies and broader histori- cal developments. Filling that gap became my quest as a historian. “Lakota America is beautifully researched, persuasively argued, What was the most surprising thing you discovered working on this and justifiably audacious in its book? What do you hope readers will take away after they read it? reach and implications. It is both a landmark in American There were many surprises; in fact, the entire process of researching and writ- ing was an exercise in recalibrating expectations. I knew the Lakotas were Indian history and a provocative powerful, but I did not foresee finding them shaping American history almost rethinking of North American on a continental scale, contending with four colonial empires and variously history generally.”—ELLIOTT WEST, diverting, foiling, and boosting their ambitions. I hope my readers will share UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS Lakota America my core conviction that we really cannot understand American history without A New History of Indigenous Power including the Lakotas as central and enduring protagonists. Pekka Hämäläinen PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN is the Rhodes Professor of American History This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often and Fellow of St. Catherine’s College surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. at Oxford University. His previous Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas’ roots as marginal hunter-gatherers book, The Comanche Empire, won and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who the Bancroft Prize in 2009. He lives dominated the Missouri Valley, America’s great commercial artery, and then—in in Oxford. what was America’s first sweeping westward expansion—as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the archi- tects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen’s deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.