| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
viii, 449 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Novelists and critics of the 1940s -- A note on the novel -- Book report -- Writing plays for television -- Visit to a small planet -- Satire in the 1950s -- Love love love -- Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak house -- Twelve Caesars -- Norman Mailer's self-advertisements -- President Kennedy -- John Dos Passos at midcentury -- Barry Goldwater: a chat -- Police brutality -- Nasser's Egypt -- Edmund Wilson, tax dodger -- Tarzan revisited -- John O'Hara -- E. Nesbit's magic -- John Horne Burns -- Sex and the law -- Sexus of Henry Miller -- Byzantium's fall -- Writers and the world -- Pornography -- Holy family -- Manchester book -- Paranoid politics -- French letters: theories of the new novel -- Miss Sontag's new novel -- Gore Vidal -- Twenty-ninth Republican Convention -- Manifesto and dialogue -- Literary gangsters -- An American press lord -- Meredith -- Doc Reuben -- Drugs -- Death of Mishima -- Women's liberation meets Miller-Mailer-Manson man -- Fourth diary of Anaïs Nin -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- H. Hughes -- Homage to Daniel Shays. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
| ISBN |
0394482107 |
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9780394482101 |
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