Through critical intoductions to seven important American thinkers and critics, this book presents a significant view of the cultural history of the nation in the late nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth centuries. The writers who are discussed and the authors of the chapters on each of them are:
Henry Adams by Louis Auchincloss
William James by Gay Wilson Allen
H.L. Mencken by Philip Wagner
Randolph Bourne by Sherman Paul
Van Wyck Brooks by William Wasserstrom
Kenneth Burke by Merle E. Brown
and Reinhold Niebuhr by Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
This volume is based on a collection of pamphets from the series of University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers.
Condition:
Dustjacket: Some scuffing and scattered marks, fading to spine and small graze to back.
Grey boards with silver lettering has light wear only. Pages clean and uncreased with minor marks only to outside edge of page block. Intact in overall very good readable condition.