Description: Edited and produced by university students, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays offers a compelling critique of corporate capitalism and American imperialism. In print again for the first time since 1904, this edition includes an introduction and historical annotations throughout.
Review Quotes:
"This new edition is an essential resource for any study of the works of Edgar Lee Masters, as well as of the Progressive Era. It is especially valuable for the introduction, which provides a layered and illuminating context for such scholarship."--Marcia Noe, author of Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland
"This gathering of thirteen polemical essays on such topics as the presidential campaigns of William Jennings Bryan and the Philippine-American War by the anti-imperialist, imperfect populist-progressive Masters, all originally published during the first years of the twentieth century, showcases a more hard-bitten component of his writing than modern readers associate with the poems about the rural Midwest in Spoon River Anthology (1915)."--American Literary Realism
"Masters was an idealistic Democratic Party activist and friend of presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan when this book was published in 1904. The annotations, new to this edition, identify people and terms important to understanding the essays."--Herbert K. Russell, author of Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography"[Stacy and his students] are to be commended for their thoroughness in identifying individuals, events, and issues raised in the essays that might otherwise mystify modern readers."--Robert D. Sampson, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society