American Ground: Vistas, Visions and Revisions

by John K. Roth (Editor), Robert H. Fossum

Gathers writings by Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Wa Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, Edmund Wilson, W.E.B. DuBois, a Adrienne Rich.

443 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1988

About the author

John King Roth is an American-based author, editor, and the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) in Claremont, California. Roth taught at CMC from 1966 through 2006, where he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, which is now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights. Best known for his contributions to Holocaust and genocide studies, he is the author or editor of more than fifty books. In 1988, he was named the U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.