| Description |
xxix, 283 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
505 0 Tyranny of the visual / Michael J. Arlen -- Afterthoughts on the Rosenbergs / Leslie A. Fiedler -- Pope John Paul II / Garry Wills -- Halloween party / Lillian Ross -- Flag / Russell Baker -- And now let's hear it for the Ed Sullivan Show! / Donald Barthelme -- Fifth Avenue, uptown: Letter from Harlem / James Baldwin -- Ninth Presidential paper-Totalitarianism / Norman Mailer -- Trotsky, Orwell, and Socialism / Dwight Macdonald -- How much due process if due a President? / Charles Rembar -- Artist and society / William Gass -- Golden Age, time past / Ralph Ellison -- Geography of the imagination / Guy Davenport -- Misnamed, mistreated, and misunderstood Irish Elk / Stephen Jay Gould -- Computers / Lewis Thomas -- Very like a whale / Robert Finch -- Hailing the Elusory Mountain Lion / Edward Hoagland -- Eclipse / John Updike -- Ahab and Nemesis / A.J. Liebling -- Sweet devouring / Eudora Welty -- Once a tramp, always / M.F.K. Fisher -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- Jean: Some fragments / Howard Moss -- My war / Paul Fussell -- Boston: Lost ideal / Elizabeth Hardwick -- St. Augustine and the bullfight / Katherine Anne Porter -- Notes on the contributors. |
| Subject |
American essays -- 20th century.
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American essays. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
Howard, Maureen, 1930-2022.
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| Added Title |
Contemporary American essays |
| ISBN |
0670239836 : $19.95 |
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