| Description |
xvii, 376 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Best American series |
| Contents |
The tenth muse / Jacques Barzun -- Turning point / Rudolph Chelminski -- Winner take nothing / Bernard Cooper -- The countess of Stanlein Restored / Nicholas Delbanco -- Welcome to cancerland / Barbara Ehrenreich -- My father's brain / Jonathan Franzen -- Final cut / Atul Gawande -- Who we are / David Halberstam -- For patriot dreams / Christopher Hitchens -- The lion in winter / Sebastian Junger -- Fire / Amy Kolen -- The anti-Jefferson / Andrew Levy -- The price we pay / Adam Mayblum -- College : the end of the golden age / Louis Menand -- Out of the ordinary / Cullen Murphy -- Merced / Danielle Ofri -- Busted in New York / Darryle Pinckney -- Word on the street / Richard Price and Anne Hudson-Price -- Matriculation fixation / Joe Queenan -- Inside the bunker / John Sack -- Why literature? / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The meaning of Timothy McVeigh / Gore Vidal -- The dramaturgy of death / Garry Wills -- Moonrise / Penny Wolfson. |
| Subject |
American essays -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Gould, Stephen Jay.
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Atwan, Robert.
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| ISBN |
0618213880 hardback |
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0618049320 paperback |
| Standard No. |
9780618213887 90000 (hbk.) |
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