Dr. Robert Zaller

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Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime
“Sure to become a mainstay of Jeffers studies…”
Josh WeinsteinJournal of American Literature
Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime
“The best single critical book about Jeffers…”
Albert GelpiCoe Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
The Cliffs of Solitude
“A triumph of great criticism.”
Whitney HothFanshawe College Ontario
The Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Modern England
“Monumental…a vast exercise in the history of ideas.”
Alexandra GajdaJournal of British Studies
The Discourse of Legitimacy
“Massive and massively learned . . . [an] enormous achievement.”
Janelle GreenbergThe Journal of Modern History
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How It Happened: The Impossibility and Inevitability of Donald Trump

July 27, 2018 admin 0

Maureen Dowd, The New York Times’ resident editorial wit, wrote recently that Donald Trump slipped into the presidency “through a tear in the space-continuum.” Sure feels that way. But would it were that simple. I [ Read Article ]

Flag projected on Donald Trumps face.
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It Has Happened Here: America’s First Fascist President

July 18, 2018 admin 1

In 1935, the third year of Hitler’s Third Reich, Sinclair Lewis published a novel called It Can’t Happen Here, speculating on the possibility that fascism might come to America. This spring, the legal scholar Cass [ Read Article ]

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Two Quintets, with Haydn in Between: The Aizuri Quartet and Pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn

October 14, 2016 admin 0

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society brought its season to a close with the Aizuri Quartet making its debut in the series with a pair of Russian piano quintets, one well-known and one obscure. The Philadelphia [ Read Article ]

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About the Author

Dr. Robert Zaller is an American author, playwright, and professor of history at Drexel University. An authority on British political history and constitutional thought, he writes extensively on politics, modern literature, film, music and art. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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