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The golden age of the American essay : 1945-1970 / edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.
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- ISBN: 9780525567332
- ISBN: 052556733X
- Physical Description: xxiii, 519 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
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| General Note: | "An Anchor Books original"--Title page verso. |
| Summary, etc.: | "A one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form."--penguinrandomhouse.com. |
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| Subject: | American essays > 20th century. |
| Genre: | Essays. |
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Table of Contents
The Golden Age of the American Essay : 1945-1970
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | p. xi | |
| The Nation: Democratic Vistas (1945) James Agee | p. 3 | |
| Humor and Faith (1946) Reinhold Niebuhr | p. 8 | |
| The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947) George F. Kennan | p. 21 | |
| Paul Kosenfeld: Three Phases (1947) Edmund Wilson | p. 41 | |
| The Dilemma of Liberal Democracy: Should the Majority Rule? (1947) Walter Lippmann | p. 55 | |
| The Gangster as Tragic Hero (1948) Robert Warshow | p. 59 | |
| The Herd of Independent Minds (1948) Harold Rosenberg | p. 65 | |
| The Self Fulfilling Prophecy (1948) Robert K. Merton | p. 81 | |
| Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Buck Honey! (1948) Leslie Fiedler | p. 101 | |
| Stranger in the Village (1953) James Baldwin | p. 111 | |
| Artists in Uniform (1953) Mary McCarthy | p. 125 | |
| This Age of Conformity (1954) Irving Howe | p. 142 | |
| Sootfall and Fallout (1956) E. B. White | p. 171 | |
| On a Book Entitled Lolita (1956) Vladimir Nabokov | p. 183 | |
| The University as Villain (1957) Saul Bellow | p. 191 | |
| The Last Lover (1958) Lionel Trilling | p. 197 | |
| A Good Appetite (1959) A. J. Liebling | p. 217 | |
| Making It! (1959) Seymour Krim | p. 235 | |
| Boston (1959) Elizabeth Hardwick | p. 243 | |
| Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction (1960) Flannery O'Connor | p. 256 | |
| Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (1960) John Updike | p. 266 | |
| A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1960) Randall Jarrell | p. 282 | |
| Modernist Painting (1961) Clement Greenberg | p. 299 | |
| The Obligation to Endure (1962) Rachel Carson | p. 308 | |
| An Evening with Jackie Kennedy (1962) Norman Mailer | p. 316 | |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., | p. 334 | |
| Writing About Jews (1963) Philip Roth | p. 352 | |
| Notes on "Camp" (1964) Susan Sontag | p. 370 | |
| The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964) Richard Hofstadter | p. 390 | |
| The Universal Trap (1964) Paul Goodman | p. 408 | |
| The Girl of the Year (1964) Tom Wolfe | p. 425 | |
| Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets (1965) Edwin Denby | p. 439 | |
| The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) N. Scott Momaday | p. 449 | |
| The Twenty-Ninth Republican Convention (1969) Gore Vidal | p. 456 | |
| The Blues Idiom and the Mainstream (1970) Albert Murray | p. 468 | |
| One Night's Dying (1970) Loren Eiseley | p. 479 | |
| Home Is Two Places (1970) Edward Hoagland | p. 487 | |
| On the Morning After the Sixties (1970) Joan Didion | p. 509 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 513 |
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