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Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now
Required Reading Why Our American Classics Matter Now Author:Andrew Delbanco In an age of uncertainty over what constitutes our common heritage, Andrew Delbanco reconsiders our greatest writers and how they enlarged our sense of American possibilities and the expressive range of our language. In superb chapters on Melville, Thoreau, Wharton, Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lincoln, and others, he shows how these w... more »riters celebrate the idea of the free individual while conveying the struggle to defend this ideal against hostile conditions and ideas.« less