{"product_id":"the-auburn-conference-tom-piazza-9781609388812","title":"The Auburn Conference","description":"It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn Writers' Conference for a public discussion about the future of the nation. By turns brilliantly comic and startlingly prescient, \u003ci\u003eThe Auburn Conference\u003c\/i\u003e vibrates with questions as alive and urgent today as they were in 1883--the chronic American conundrums of race, class, and gender, and the fate of the democratic ideal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Piazza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 160938881X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609388812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023 pg. 31","brand":"Tom Piazza","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075864523007,"sku":"9781609388812","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d69f2c44-fa40-489b-bd8e-13039e783d74.jpg?v=1685461889","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-auburn-conference-tom-piazza-9781609388812","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}