| Description |
254 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: How else can a novelist say it? -- Nelson Algren: Down with all hands -- James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue uptown: a letter from Harlem ; East River downtown: postscript to a letter from Harlem -- Saul Bellow: Literary notes on Khrushchev -- Herbert Blau: Public art of crisis in the suburbs of hell -- George P. Elliott: Why are they driving me crazy? -- Herbert Gold: Death in Miami Beach -- Paul Goodman: Devolution of democracy -- Elizabeth Hardwick: Life and death of Caryl Chessman -- Seymour Krim: Insanity bit -- Mary McCarthy: America the beautiful: the humanist in the bathtub -- Arthur Miller: Bored and the violent -- Warren Miller: Poor Columbus -- William Saroyan: Debt ; Time -- William Styron: Mrs. Aadland's little girl, Beverly -- Harvey Swados: Pilot as precursor -- Gore Vidal: Barry Goldwater: a chat. |
| Subject |
American essays -- 20th century.
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American essays. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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