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(★)(1.In the years after the Civil War, the United States, searching for its philosophical moorings, looked to´Old Japan´ for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, trying to reinvent itself as a modern state, was open to foreign influence for the first time. ´The Great Wave´is the beautifully rendered story of the cultural reciprocity that arose between the two nations, a story that includes such larger-than-life personalities as herman Melville, adventurer Mabel Loomis Todd, President (and judo enthusiast) Theodore Roosevelt, and Kakuzo Okakura, author of the cult favorite´The Book of Tea´. 2.Christopher Benfey teaches literature at Mount Holyoke College, where he is codirector of the Weissman Center for Leadership. He writes for many magazines, including´The New Republic´,´The New York Times Book Review´, and´Travel & Leisure´, and for two years he was the regular art reviewer for´Slate´. Benfey is the author of ´Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others´,´The Double Life of Stephen Crane´,´Degas in New Orleans´,´The Great Wave´,´A Summer of Hummingbirds´, and ´Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay´. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife and two sons.) |
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