The golden age of the American essay : 1945-1970
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- ISBN: 9780525567332
- ISBN: 052556733X
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xxiii, 519 pages ; 21 cm - Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
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Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Phillip Lopate -- The Nation: Democratic Vistas (1945) / James Agee -- Humor and Faith (1946) / Reinhold Niebuhr -- The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947) / George F. Kennan -- Paul Rosenfeld: Three Phases (1947) / Edmund Wilson -- The Dilemma of Liberal Democracy : should the majority rule? (1947) / Walter Lippmann -- The Gangster as Tragic Hero (1948) / Robert Warshow -- The Herd of Independent Minds (1948) / Harold Rosenberg -- The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (1948) / Robert K. Merton -- Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey! (1948) / Leslie Fieldler -- Stranger in the Village (1953) / James Baldwin -- Artists in Uniform (1953) / Mary McCarthy -- This Age of Conformity (1954) / Irving Howe -- Sootfall and Fallout (1956) / E. B. White -- On a Book Entitled Lolita (1956) / Vladimir Nabokov -- The University as Villain (1957) / Saul Bellow -- The Last Lover (1958) / Lionel Trilling -- A Good Appetite (1959) / A. J. Liebling -- Making It! (1959) / Seymour Krim -- Boston (1959) / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction (1960) / Flannery O'Connor -- Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (1960) / John Updike -- A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1960) / Randall Jarrell -- Modernist Painting (1961) / Clement Greenberg -- The Obligation to Endure (1962) / Rachel Carson -- An Evening With Jackie Kennedy (1962) / Norman Mailer -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Writing About Jews (1963) / Philip Roth -- Notes on "Camp" (1964) / Susan Sontag -- The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964) / Richard Hofstadter -- The Universal Trap (1964) / Paul Goodman -- The Girl of the Year (1964) / Tom Wolfe -- Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets (1965) / Edwin Denby -- The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) / N. Scott Momaday -- The Twenty-ninth Republican Convention (1969) / Gore Vidal -- The Blues Idiom and the Mainstream (1970) / Albert Murray -- One Night's Dying (1970) / Loren Eisely -- Home Is Two Places (1970) / Edward Hoagland -- On the Morning After the Sixties (1970) / Joan Didion. |
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Subject: | American essays 20th century HISTORY / Essays LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays American essays |
Genre: | Essays. Essays. |
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