| Description |
5 preliminary leaves, 5-378 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The man who knew Coolidge / by Sinclair Lewis -- Go down, death! : A funeral sermon / by James Weldon Johnson -- William Jennings Bryan / by H.L. Mencken -- What is a statesman? / by Charles A. Beard -- Death in the woods / by Sherwood Anderson -- Remember us! / by Ben Hecht -- Tom Paine / by William E. Dodd -- The anatomy of loneliness / by Thomas Wolfe -- That evening sun go down / by William Faulkner -- Whitman as his own press-agent / by Emory Holloway -- No one my grief can tell / by Nancy Hale -- Passion / by Walter de la Mare -- The law takes its toll / by Robert Blake -- Boy baby / by Carl Sandburg -- High John de Conquer / by Zora Neale Hurston -- Eminence / by Ruth Suckow -- Our enemy, the cat / by Alan Devoe -- He's taken her back again / by Gwendolen Haste -- The mortician / by Elmer Davis -- Hatrack / by Herbert Asbury -- Husbands grow on trees / by Whitfield Cook -- All God's chillun got wings / by Eugene O'Neill -- The overcoat / by Sally Benson -- The ballad of the gallows-bird / by Edwin Markham -- One night at Coney / by Robert M. Coates -- Litany / by Charles Angoff -- Crusade for air power / by Alexander P. de Seversky -- Tales from Oklahoma / by George Milburn -- Stephen A. Douglas / by Edgar Lee Masters -- The Virginians are coming again / by Vachel Lindsay -- Trial by jury / by James M. Cain -- Letter to Saint Peter / by Elma Dean -- Convention / by Theodore Dreiser -- Americana -- Two poems. The grey goosander ; Address to the merchants / by John McClure -- Crazy Sunday / by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The revolt of the ghosts / by Eugene Lyons -- Myself upon the earth / by William Saroyan -- Altar boy / by John Fante -- Aesthete : model 1924 / by Ernest Boyd -- At breakfast / by Grace Stone Coates -- American marriage / by Mary Austin -- China boy / by Idwal Jones -- These dark hills / by Jesse Stuart -- We rob a bank / by Ernest Booth -- The victor / by Freer Stalnaker -- A leaf-treader / by Robert Frost -- The lumberjacks go sissy / by Stewart H. Holbrook -- Bright eyes / by Jim Tully -- The theatre / by George Jean Nathan -- Happy days / by Raymond Clapper -- The South kills another Negro / by William Bradford Huie -- Your life expectancy / by Louis I. Dublin -- Foolish about windows / by Carl Sandburg. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Literary collections.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
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Literary collections.
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Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Spivak, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Edmund), 1900-1994.
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Angoff, Charles, 1902-1979.
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| Added Title |
American mercury.
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