The American idea : the best of the Atlantic monthly : 150 years of writers and thinkers who shaped our history /

The American idea : the best of the Atlantic monthly : 150 years of writers and thinkers who shaped our history /

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Other Authors: Vare, Robert., Smith, Daniel B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, c2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
National characteristics, American > Miscellanea.
National characteristics, American > Literary collections.
American essays.
American fiction.
American poetry.
United States > Civilization > Miscellanea.
United States > Intellectual life > Miscellanea.
United States > Civilization > Literary collections.
Table of Contents:
  • [PT. I.] FIRSTS. The election in November / James Russell Lowell (1860)
  • The stereoscope and the stereograph / Oliver Wendell Holmes (1859)
  • Darwin and his critics / Asa Gray (1860)
  • Battle hymn of the republic / poem by Julia Ward Howe (1862)
  • The story of a year / fiction by Henry James (1865)
  • The innocents abroad / book review by William Dean Howells (1869)
  • A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it / Mark Twain (1874)
  • A telephonic conversation / Mark Twain (1880)
  • The American forests / John Muir (1897)
  • Can a Catholic be president? / Alfred E. Smith (1927)
  • Fifty grand / fiction by Ernest Hemingway (1927)
  • Cloud, castle, lake / fiction by Vladimir Nabokov (1941)
  • As we may think / Vannevar Bush (1945)
  • The captivity of marriage / Nora Johnson (1961)
  • The education of David Stockman / William Greider (1981)
  • Broken windows / James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling (1982)
  • The roots of Muslim rage / Bernard Lewis (1990)
  • Who was Deep Throat? / James Mann (1992)
  • The coming anarchy / Robert D. Kaplan (1994)
  • The medical ordeals of JFK / Robert Dallek (2002)
  • The fifty-first state / James Fallows (2002)
  • [PT. II.] BLACK AND WHITE. Reconstruction / Frederick Douglass (1866)
  • The awakening of the Negro / Booker T. Washington (1896)
  • Strivings of the Negro people / W.E.B. Du Bois (1897)
  • Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
  • Say good-bye to Big Daddy / poem by Randall Jarrell (1967)
  • The barber / fiction by Flannery O'Connor (1970)
  • The origins of the underclass / Nicholas Lemann (1986)
  • [PT. III.] GODS AND MONSTERS. Thoreau / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1862)
  • The place of Abraham Lincoln in history / George Bancroft (1865)
  • Ode to Lincoln / poem by James Russell Lowell (1865)
  • The natural (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) / Isaiah Berlin (1955)
  • Stalin's chuckle / Ian Frazier (1995)
  • The path to power (Lyndon Johnson) / Robert A. Caro (1981)
  • Tales of the tyrant (Saddam Hussein) / Mark Bowden (2002)
  • American everyman (Warren Buffett) / Walter Kirn (2004)
  • [PT. IV.] BEHIND THE SCENES. Chiefly about war matters / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1862)
  • Death of a pig / E.B. White (1948)
  • Flying upside down / Tracy Kidder (1981)
  • The crash of EgyptAir 990 / William Langewiesche (2001)
  • [PT. V.] STATES OF WAR. Paul Revere's ride / poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
  • The psychological roots of war / William James (1904)
  • Atomic war or peace / Albert Einstein (1947)
  • "The good war" / Studs Terkel (1984)
  • What is it about? / Thomas Powers (1984)
  • [PT. VI.] CONTROVERSIES. For the Union dead / poem by Robert Lowell (1960)
  • Mr. Sammler's planet / fiction by Saul Bellow (1969)
  • Among the believers / V.S. Naipaul (1981)
  • Dan Quayle was right / Barbara Defoe Whitehead (1993)
  • [PT. VII.] CAPITALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS. Story of a great monopoly / Henry Demarest Lloyd (1881)
  • Have you ever tried to sell a diamond? / Edward Jay Epstein (1982)
  • On the liquidation of the Mustang Ranch by the Internal Revenue Service / poem by X.J. Kennedy (1991)
  • Why McDonald's fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser (2001)
  • [PT. VIII.] THE NATURAL WORLD. Walking / Henry David Thoreau
  • "Birches" ; "The road not taken" ; and "The sound of trees" / poems by Robert Frost (1915)
  • Teaching a stone to talk / Annie Dillard (1981)
  • The wellfleet whale / poem by Stanley Kunitz (1981)
  • [PT. IX.] CROWD PLEASERS. Three days to see / Helen Keller (1933)
  • The blow that hurts / Gene Tunney (1939)
  • Blue highways / William Least Heat-Moon (1982)
  • Lake Wobegon days / fiction by Garrison Keillor (1985)
  • The last resort / Cullen Murphy (1992)
  • Lamentations of the father / Ian Frazier (1997)
  • [PT. X.] THE AMERICAN IDEA. The words that remade America / Garry Wills (1992)
  • American civilization / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1862)
  • Bardic symbols / poem by Walt Whitman (1860)
  • The duties of privilege / Theodore Roosevelt (1894)
  • The ideals of America / Woodrow Wilson (1902)
  • Contributions of the West to American democracy / Frederick Jackson Turner (1903)
  • Trans-national America / Randolph S. Bourne (1916)
  • Perils of American power / Reinhold Niebuhr (1932)
  • The new isolationism / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1952)
  • The illusion of security / George F. Kennan (1954)
  • Must we hate? / Archibald Macleish (1963)
  • Poetry and power / John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1964)
  • America's crisis addiction / George McGovern (1967)
  • Bystanders to genocide / Samantha Power (2001)
  • American ground / William Langewiesche (2002).

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