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First edition. |
| Description |
xxxi, 712 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
Includes essays and literary works by Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, Clarence Darrow, John Kenneth Galbraith, and H. L. Mencken as well as an essay by Henry L. Stimson (P.A. 1883) on the decision to use the atomic bomb. |
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Contains primary source material. |
| Contents |
Town-Ho's Story / Herman Melville 2 -- Editor's Table: Union Saving 12 -- Uttoxeter / Nathaniel Hawthorne 17 -- Siege of Fort Atkinson 20 -- Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority / Stephen A. Douglas 29 -- Battle of Antietam / George F. Noyes 42 -- Psyche / Hans Christian Andersen 47 -- Fortunes of War / Robert Tomes 53 -- March to the Sea / Herman Melville 57 -- Freedman's Story / M. Schele de Vere 59 -- Plains, As I Crossed Them Ten Years Ago / Horace Greeley 68 -- Editor's Easy Chair: Charles Dickens / George William Curtis 72 -- Down the Mississippi / George Ward Nichols 74 -- Editor's Easy Chair: Political Life in America / George William Curtis 81 -- Little Laborers of New York City / C. L. Brace 84 -- Panic in Wall Street 87 -- Song of the Redwood-Tree / Walt Whitman 93 -- A Song / Christina Rossetti 97 -- Editor's Easy Chair: Boss Tweed / George William Curtis 98 -- Washington Square / Henry James 102 -- Editor's Easy Chair: Women's Rights / George William 106 -- Our Public Land Policy / Veeder B. Paine 108 -- Editor's Easy Chair: Ulysses S. Grant / George William Curtis 113 -- Editor's Easy Chair: Strikes and Anarchy / George William Curtis 115 -- His Ship / James Russell Lowell 118 -- Fame's Little Day / Sarah Orne Jewett 120 -- St. Clair's Defeat / Theodore Roosevelt 125 -- With the Fifth Corps / Frederic Remington 133 -- Angel Child / Stephen Crane 140 -- Extracts from Adam's Diary and Eve's Diary / Mark Twain 146 -- Quicksand / Edith Wharton 158 -- Integrity of American Character / Grover Cleveland 166 -- Sun-dog Trail / Jack London 168 -- Feeding the Mind / Lewis Carroll 175 -- Informer / Joseph Conrad 178 -- Enchanted Bluff / Willa Sibert Cather 189 -- Night in a Suburb / Thomas Hardy 196 -- Rabbit-pen / Sherwood Anderson 197 -- Country Newspaper / William Allen White 201 -- My Plunge into the Slums / M. E. Ravage 205 -- Country Doctor / Theodore Dreiser 210 -- Lion's Mouth: Mother Goose, Propagandist / Don Marquis 217 -- Eighty Years and After / William Dean Howells 219 -- Gods of the Copybook Maxims / Rudyard Kipling 226 -- Fire and Ice / Robert Frost 228 -- To the Ghost of John Milton / Carl Sandburg 229 -- Crime and the Alarmists / Clarence S. Darrow 230 -- In Praise of Freedom / Will Durant 235 -- Editor's Easy Chair: Re-discovering Europe / Edward S. Martin 241 -- Aimee Semple McPherson / Sarah Comstock 243 -- My Countryside, Then and Now / Malcolm Cowley 251 -- Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments / Archibald MacLeish 256 -- Lady in the Looking-Glass / Virginia Woolf 257 -- Peculiar Weakness of Mr. Hoover / Walter Lippmann 262 -- Sonnet / Edna St. Vincent Millay 267 -- "Listen to This, Dear" / James Thurber 268 -- A Death in the Country / Stephen Vincent Benet 270 -- What Hitler Wants / Leon Trotsky 280 -- Was My Life Worth Living? / Emma Goldman 285 -- Future of English / H. L. Mencken 290 -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck 295 -- Solitude / Rainer Maria Rilke 301 -- America's Medieval Women / Pearl S. Buck 302 -- One Man's Meat: Walden Pond / E. B. White 308 -- Since Yesterday / Frederick Lewis Allen 312 -- Who Goes Nazi? / Dorothy Thompson 316 -- Wide Net / Eudora Welty 321 -- What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You / Richard Wright 332 -- People at War / John Dos Passos 336 -- Going Home / Alfred Kazin 343 -- Iwo Jima Before H-Hour / John P. Marquand 346 -- Our Worst Wartime Mistake / Eugene V. Rostow 352 -- Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb / Henry L. Stimson 359 -- Gertrude Stein: A Self-Portrait / Katherine Anne Porter 365 -- Anywhere in Europe / Anne Morrow Lindbergh 372 -- Art for Art's Sake / E. M. Forster 375 -- Vega / John Cheever 379 -- Century / Bernard DeVoto 388 -- Evangelist / Joyce Cary 393 -- Silent Generation / Thornton Wilder 396 -- Lamb to thes Slaughter / Roald Dahl 399 -- Great Wall Street Crash / John Kenneth Galbraith 404 -- Sound of Moorish Laughter / Harold Brodkey 408 -- On Fear: The South in Labor / William Faulkner 414 -- Farmer's Wife / Anne Sexton 417 -- Recollections from Beyond the Last Rope / Philip Roth 418 -- Mushrooms / Sylvia 426 -- Vermont / John Updike 427 -- Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King / James Baldwin 428 -- Miami Notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X / George Plimpton 438 -- Paranoid Style in American Politics / Richard Hofstadter 445 -- Mississippi: The Fallen Paradise / Walker Percy 452 -- Long View: Negro / Langston Hughes 458 -- Celebration / James Dickey 459 -- History by the Ounce / Barbara W. Tuchman 461 -- Silences: When Writers Don't Write / Tillie Olsen 465 -- Player Piano / Randall Jarrell 472 -- Miami Beach and Chicago / Norman Mailer 473 -- Editor's Easy Chair: Survival U / John Fischer 478 -- My Lai 4 / Seymour M. Hersh 484 -- Is There a Place for Morality in Foreign Affairs? / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 509 -- Everyday Use / Alice Walker 515 -- Death of Salvador Allende / Gabriel Garcia Marquez 520 -- Sound of Tinkling Brass / Murray Kempton 526 -- Innocence in the Galapagos / Annie Dillard 530 -- To the Disney Station / Michael Harrington 537 -- Liberty Under Siege / Walter Karp 546 -- Soccer War / Ryszard Kapuscinski 558 -- Moment Before the Gun Went Off / Nadine Gordimer 568 -- Untime of the Imam / Salman Rushdie 571 -- When You're a Crip (Or a Blood) 577 -- Users, Like Me / Gail Regier 586 -- Reassurance / Allan Gurganus 590 -- Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast / Tom Wolfe 595 -- Chronicle of a Debacle Foretold / L. J. Davis 606 -- Late Victorians / Richard Rodriguez 620 -- Ladies and Gentlemen / Joyce Carol Oates 628 -- Rake / David Mamet 632 -- 400-Pound CEO / George Saunders 635 -- Last Shot / Darcy Frey 643 -- On Not Being a Victim / Mary Gaitskill 657 -- Notebook: Morte De Nixon / Lewis H. Lapham 663 -- Ticket to the Fair / David Foster Wallace 668 -- Where Worlds Collide / Pico Iyer 683 -- Beyond Belief / Fenton Johnson 690 -- Notebook: Exorcism / Lewis H. Lapham 699. |
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American literature -- 19th century.
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United States -- Civilization -- 19th century -- Miscellanea.
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United States -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Miscellanea.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Miscellanea.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Miscellanea.
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United States -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Lapham, Lewis H.
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Rosenbush, Ellen.
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| Added Title |
Harper's. |
| ISBN |
1879957531 |
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9781879957534 |
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