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1st ed. |
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xxviii, 647 p. ; 25 cm. |
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[PT. I.] FIRSTS. The election in November / James Russell Lowell (1860) -- The stereoscope and the stereograph / Oliver Wendell Holmes (1859) -- Darwin and his critics / Asa Gray (1860) -- Battle hymn of the republic : poem / Julia Ward Howe (1862) -- The story of a year : fiction / Henry James (1865) -- The innocents abroad : book review / William Dean Howells (1869) -- A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it / Mark Twain (1874) -- A telephonic conversation / Mark Twain (1880) -- The American forests / John Muir (1897) -- Can a Catholic be president? / Alfred E. Smith (1927) -- Fifty grand : fiction / Ernest Hemingway (1927) -- Cloud, castle, lake : fiction / Vladimir Nabokov (1941) -- As we may think / Vannevar Bush (1945) -- The captivity of marriage / Nora Johnson (1961) -- The education of David Stockman / William Greider (1981) -- Broken windows / James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling (1982) -- The roots of Muslim rage / Bernard Lewis (1990) -- Who was Deep Throat? / James Mann (1992) -- The coming anarchy / Robert D. Kaplan (1994) -- The medical ordeals of JFK / Robert Dallek (2002) -- The fifty-first state / James Fallows (2002) -- [PT. II.] BLACK AND WHITE. Reconstruction / Frederick Douglass (1866) -- The awakening of the Negro / Booker T. Washington (1896) -- Strivings of the Negro people / W.E.B. Du Bois (1897) -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963) -- Say good-bye to Big Daddy : poem / Randall Jarrell (1967) -- The barber : fiction / Flannery O'Connor (1970) -- The origins of the underclass / Nicholas Lemann (1986) -- [PT. III.] GODS AND MONSTERS. Thoreau / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1862) -- The place of Abraham Lincoln in history / George Bancroft (1865) -- Ode to Lincoln : poem / James Russell Lowell (1865) -- The natural (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) / Isaiah Berlin (1955) -- Stalin's chuckle / Ian Frazier (1995) -- The path to power (Lyndon Johnson) / Robert A. Caro (1981) -- Tales of the tyrant (Saddam Hussein) / Mark Bowden (2002) -- American everyman (Warren Buffett) / Walter Kirn (2004). |
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[PT. IV.] BEHIND THE SCENES. Chiefly about war matters / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1862) -- Death of a pig / E.B. White (1948) -- Flying upside down / Tracy Kidder (1981) -- The crash of EgyptAir 990 / William Langewiesche (2001) -- [PT. V.] STATES OF WAR. Paul Revere's ride : poem / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861) -- The psychological roots of war / William James (1904) -- Atomic war or peace / Albert Einstein (1947) -- "The good war" / Studs Terkel (1984) -- What is it about? / Thomas Powers (1984) -- [PT. VI.] CONTROVERSIES. For the Union dead : poem / Robert Lowell (1960) -- Mr. Sammler's planet : fiction / Saul Bellow (1969) -- Among the believers / V.S. Naipaul (1981) -- Dan Quayle was right / Barbara Defoe Whitehead (1993) -- [PT. VII.] CAPITALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS. Story of a great monopoly / Henry Demarest Lloyd (1881) -- Have you ever tried to sell a diamond? / Edward Jay Epstein (1982) -- On the liquidation of the Mustang Ranch by the Internal Revenue Service : poem / X.J. Kennedy (1991) -- Why McDonald's fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser (2001). |
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[PT. VIII.] THE NATURAL WORLD. Walking / Henry David Thoreau -- "Birches" ; "The road not taken" ; and "The sound of trees" : poems / Robert Frost (1915) -- Teaching a stone to talk / Annie Dillard (1981) -- The wellfleet whale : poem / Stanley Kunitz (1981) -- [PT. IX.] CROWD PLEASERS. Three days to see / Helen Keller (1933) -- The blow that hurts / Gene Tunney (1939) -- Blue highways / William Least Heat-Moon (1982) -- Lake Wobegon days : fiction / Garrison Keillor (1985) -- The last resort / Cullen Murphy (1992) -- Lamentations of the father / Ian Frazier (1997) -- [PT. X.] THE AMERICAN IDEA. The words that remade America / Garry Wills (1992) -- American civilization / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1862) -- Bardic symbols : poem / Walt Whitman (1860) -- The duties of privilege / Theodore Roosevelt (1894) -- The ideals of America / Woodrow Wilson (1902) -- Contributions of the West to American democracy / Frederick Jackson Turner (1903) -- Trans-national America / Randolph S. Bourne (1916) -- Perils of American power / Reinhold Niebuhr (1932) -- The new isolationism / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1952) -- The illusion of security / George F. Kennan (1954) -- Must we hate? / Archibald Macleish (1963) -- Poetry and power / John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1964) -- America's crisis addiction / George McGovern (1967) -- Bystanders to genocide / Samantha Power (2001) -- American ground / William Langewiesche (2002). |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- Literary collections.
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National characteristics, American -- Literary collections.
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American essays.
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American fiction.
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American poetry.
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| Added Author |
Vare, Robert.
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Smith, Daniel B.
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| Added Title |
Atlantic monthly.
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| ISBN |
0385521081 |
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9780385521086 |
| Standard No. |
IG# 9780385521086 |
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AU@ 000041580271 |
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