Up from the DepthsUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American historythe novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819 1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895 1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled timesand their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis. The