(Hardback)

How might our friendships shape our politics This new book examines how contemporary American fiction from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States.

(Paperback)

How might our friendships shape our politics This new book examines how contemporary American fiction from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States.