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Title:

The best American essays 2002 / edited and with an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

xii, 376 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American essays--21st century.

Other Authors:

Gould, Stephen Jay.

Notes:

Includes biographical notes (p. [367]-371).

Contents:

Moonrise / Penny Wolfson. Turning point / Rudoloph Chelminski -- Winner take nothing / Bernard Cooper -- The Countess of Stanlein restored / Nicholas Delbanco -- Welcome to cancerland / Barbara Ehrenreich -- My father's brain / Jonathon Frazen -- Final cut / Atul Gawande -- Who we are / David Halberstam -- For patriot's dream's / Christopher Hitchens -- The lion in winter / Sebastian Junger -- Fire 165 / Amy Kolen -- The Anti-Jefferson / Andrew Levy -- The price we pay / Adam Mayblum -- College: the end of the golden age / Louis Menand -- Out of the ordinary / Cullen Murphy Merced / Danielle Ofri -- Busted in New York / Darryl Pinckney -- Word on the street 267 / Richard Price and Anne Hudson-Price -- Matriculation fixation / Joe Queenan -- Inside the bunker / John Sack -- Why literature? / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The meaning of Timothy McVeigh / Gore Vidal -- The dramaturgy of death / Garry Wills -- Moonrise / Penny Wolfson.

Series:

The best American series

ISBN:

9780618049325
0618049320

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50740782

Locations:

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)