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Kent Puckett

Kent Puckett

Kent Puckett is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Oxford University Press, 2008), Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and War Pictures: Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939–1945 (Fordham University Press, 2017). icon

J. M. Keynes and the Visible Hands

By Kent Puckett

In 1919, those crafting the fate of postwar Europe wanted their designs to be hidden from view. Fortunately, Keynes had other plans.

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By Kent Puckett

We have Nixon to kick around again. During the election and then early presidency of Donald Trump …

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