Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021
ISBN 10: 052556733X ISBN 13: 9780525567332
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Verlag: Anchor (edition ), 2021
ISBN 10: 052556733X ISBN 13: 9780525567332
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Apr 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 052556733X ISBN 13: 9780525567332
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 from Normal Mailer to James Baldwin to Joan Didion selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip LopateThe three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in the arts inspired a flowering of literary culture. At the same time, the many problems that confronted mid-century America racism, sexism, nuclear threat, war, poverty, and environmental degradation among them proved fruitful topics for America's best minds. In The Golden Age of the American Essay, Phillip Lopate assembles a dazzling array of famous writers, critics, sociologists, theologians, historians, activists, theorists, humorists, poets, and novelists. Here are writers like James Agee, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, Randall Jarrell, and Mary McCarthy, pivoting from the comic indignities of daily life to world peace, consumerism, and restaurants in Paris. Here is Norman Mailer on Jackie Kennedy, Vladimir Nabokov on Lolita, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' and Richard Hofstadter's 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics.' Here are Gore Vidal, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Joan Didion, and many more, in a treasury of brilliant writing that has stood the test of time.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021
ISBN 10: 052556733X ISBN 13: 9780525567332
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Zustand: New. PHILLIP LOPATE is the author of To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction and of four essay collections, Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, and Portrait Inside My Head. He is the editor o.