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02493aam a22003377i 4500 001 C3C2DE5CAC9F11EBAF53C5C920ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210504011201 008 201123s2021 nyu 000 e eng d 020 $a 052556733X 020 $a 9780525567332 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1245584966 040 $a CGP $b eng $e rda $c CGP $d OCLCO $d JBZ $d VP@ $d SO$ $d OCLCO $d IW5 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS688 $b .G585 2021 082 04 $a 814/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Lopate, Phillip, $d 1943- $e writer of introduction. $e writer of introduction. 245 04 $a The golden age of the American essay : $b 1945-1970 / $c edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate. 260 $a New York : $b Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, $c 2021. 300 $a xxiii, 519 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "The 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." -Amazon. 650 0 $a American essays $y 20th century. 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft 941 $a 6 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025910.0 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111011608.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010021654.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909063615.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211223010127.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210504014147.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C3C2DE5CAC9F11EBAF53C5C920ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search