| Description |
509 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
A Laurel edition (New York) ; 3055
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| Contents |
Information to those who would remove to America / Benjamin Franklin -- The duties of American citizenship / Theodore Roosevelt -- When democratic virtues disintegrate / Carl Lotus Becker -- Our changing characteristics / James Truslow Adams -- The discovery of what it means to be an American / James Baldwin -- The American vision / Adlai E. Stevenson -- Natural aristocracy / Thomas Jefferson -- The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The essence of humanism / William James -- The critic and American life / Irving Babbitt -- The three enemies of intellect / Jacques Barzun -- The freedom of the will (conclusion) / Jonathan Edwards -- Against toleration / Nathaniel Ward -- The nature of liberty / H. L. Mencken -- The experimental life / Randolph Silliman Bourne -- Escape from peril / John Dewey -- Coda / Herbert J. Muller -- The revolution of modernity / Charles Frankel -- The rise and fall of the practical sense / Eric Hoffer -- Federalist paper number ten: special interests and the union / James Madison -- Society / John Jay Chapman -- The future of American liberalism / Morris Raphael Cohen |
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(cont.) Modernity and liberty Horace Meyer Kallen The genius of democracy Robert Morrison MacIver The American mind Bliss Perry Dixie Destination Jonathan Daniels Are we against revolution? Ralph Barton Perry Society and the individual Percy W. Bridgman Who is loyal to America? Henry Steele Commager Economic security John Kenneth Galbraith The open mind J. Robert Oppenheimer National nomenclature Washington Irving "Our literature" James Russell Lowell Boston: 1904-05 Henry James Parents Henry Seidel Canby On visiting bookshops Christopher Darlington Morley The pleasures of literature Edmund Wilson Draft board nights James Thurber Ten fateful years Albert Einstein Grandeurs and miseries of old age Elmer Holmes Davis |
| Subject |
American essays.
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| Added Author |
Jennings, Frank G., compilor.
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