| Description |
x, 560 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
"Biographical notes": pages 547-560. |
| Contents |
What is thought? / John Dewey -- Rationalizing / James Harvey Robinson -- How to detect propaganda / Propaganda Analysis -- Some big words / Editors of Life -- Without benefit of Isms / H.A. Overstreet -- How to read / Jacques Barzun -- How to mark a book / Mortimer J. Adler -- The origins of the English language / Logan Pearsall Smith -- The hallmarks of American / H.L. Mencken -- New words from old / Paul R. Evans -- Vocabulary and success / Johnson O'Connor -- Short words are words of might / Gelett Burgess -- Problems of usage / H.W. Fowler -- The busy clicheʹ expert / Frank Sullivan -- My earliest teachers / Mary Ellen Chase -- The man who taught me most / Norman Angell -- I become a student / Lincoln Steffens -- What is liberal education? / Robert M. Hutchins -- Education by books / Mark Van Doren -- Traits of mind / Harvard Committee -- The place of science in a liberal education / Edwin Grant Conklin -- Even A.B.'s must eat / Ernest Earnest -- Heartache on the campus / Mrs. Glenn Frank -- Sport versus athletics / Robert K. Root -- The American student as I see him / Gilbert Highet -- Literature and life / Pearl Buck -- For better or worse, the book clubs / John K. Hutchens -- Abraham Lincoln, "The Prairie Years" - A review / Stuart P. Sherman -- "Was College Worth While?" - A review / Stuart Chase -- "Grapes of Wrath" - A review / Edward Weeks -- The long arm of Hollywood / Leo C. Rosten -- "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" - A review / Manny Farber -- "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" - A review / P.T. Hartung -- Radio must grow up / Paul A. Porter -- The promise of America / Thomas Wolfe -- U.S.A. / Editors of Fortune -- My town / T.E. Murphy -- In an American factory / Stoyan Pribichevich -- The suburban mind / Carl von Rhode -- When the aliens left / Ernest L. Meyer -- Introduction to "The American Character" / D.W. Brogan -- Freedom / David Cushman Coyle -- America's contribution to Democracy / R.M. MacIver -- A rigid outlook in a dynamic world / Felix Frankfurter -- Democracy and the machine / Waldemar Kaempffert -- Good newspapers and bad / William Allen White -- Our conflicting racial policies / Will H. Alexander -- Supply and demand / Dorothy Canfield -- How Americans choose their heroes / Dixon Wecter -- Knowledge is power - Not Wisdom / Robert A. Millikan -- The scientific method in human affairs / Walter Rautenstrauch -- The biological basis of democracy / Edmund W. Sinnott -- Atomic age / Editors of Time -- Does science menace peace? / Richard M. Sutton -- The pretensions of science / H.S. Tigner -- An atomic parable / Irwin Edman -- Why men fight / Will Durant -- The soldier's faith / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- Is this all there is to a battle? / Ralph Ingersoll -- The only road to peace / Dorothy Thompson -- Have nations any morals? W.T. Stace -- If the bomb gets out of hand / Philip Morrison -- The challenge: One world or none / Raymond B. Fosdick -- The wild flag / E.B. White. |
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American essays.
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American essays. |
| Added Author |
Wells, Carlton F. (Carlton Frank), 1898-
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