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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First edition, 1st printing. 55 unforgettable essays. 596pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in As New condition. "This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. In her introduction to this volume, Joyce Carol Oates describes her project as 'a search for the expression of personal experience within the historical, the individual talent within the tradition.'. . This collection honors some of the twentieth century's best-known and best-loved writers on a breathtaking variety of topics. In a journalistic mode, Ernest Hemingway covers the bullfights in Pamplona, H.L. Mencken reacts to the Scopes trial, and Michael Herr dodges bullets in a helicopter over Vietnam. Nowhere is the intersection of our personal and political histories more meaningful than when the subject is America's enduring legacy of racial strife, as shown by Richard Wright's 'The Ethics of Living Jim Crow,' James Baldwin's 'Notes of a Native Son,' Zora Neale Hurston's 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me,' and others. The wonders and horrors of science, nature, and the cosmos are explored with elegance, bravery, and beauty when Lewis Thomas writes about 'The Lives of a Cell,' Rachel Carson mulls 'The Marginal World,' and Stephen Jay Gould preaches evolution and baseball in 'The Creation Myths of Cooperstown.'" [jacket copy] Among writers included: James Agee, Annie Dillard, W.E.B. DuBois, William H. Gass, Eudora Welty, John McPhee, Mark Twain, Elizabeth Hardwick, E.B. White, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, dozens more. Near-pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright-as-new jacket. Quite presentable.…