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Bennett Parten

Bennett Parten is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University. His writing has appeared in We’re History, The History New Network, and The Washington Post.

American Revanchism: On Karen Joy Fowler’s “Booth”

Bennett Parten considers Karen Joy Fowler’s new novel, “Booth,” about the United States’ most notorious assassin....

BENNETT PARTEN

FICTION

POLITICS

HISTORY

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History

McCarthy imagined a vast border region where colonial empires clashed, tribes went to war, and bounty hunters roamed....

BENNETT PARTEN

FICTION

HISTORY

The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6

How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol....

BENNETT PARTEN

POLITICS

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Gore Vidal: His Life and “Lincoln”

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