This singular collection is nothing less than a political,
spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous
modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators,
activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of
works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from
personal experience to larger significance without severing the
connection between speaker and audience. From Ernest Hemingway
covering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s
"Letter from Birmingham Jail," these essays fit, in the words of
Joyce Carol Oates, "into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest ing] where
we've come from, and who we are, and where we are going." Among
those whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir, T. S.
Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe,
Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, Cynthia
Ozick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and Annie
Dillard.
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