David Reynolds

Professor of American Studies, City University of New York

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Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; author of Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson and John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

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