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Radiant truths : essential dispatches, reports, confessions, & other essays on American belief /
"Beginning with Walt Whitman singing hymns at a wounded soldier's bedside during the Civil War, this surprising and vivid anthology ranges straight through to the twenty-first century to end with Francine Prose crying tears of complicated joy at the sight of Whitman's words in Zuccott...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From: Specimen days (1863/1882) / Walt Whitman
- From: The Maine woods (1864) / Henry David Thoreau
- From: Innocents abroad (1869) / Mark Twain
- Maggie Darling (1894) / William T. Stead
- Dead after Purim (1898) / Abraham Cahan
- The ordination of Asoka (1903) / Sara Jeannette Duncan
- The devil baby at Hull-House (1916) / Jane Addams
- Yearning mountaineers' souls need reconversion nightly (1925) / H.L. Mencken
- I was marching (1934) / Meridel Le Sueur
- Hoodoo (1935) / Zora Neale Hurston
- Artists in uniform (1953) / Mary McCarthy
- From: "Down at the cross" (1962) / James Baldwin
- From: The armies of the night (1968) / Norman Mailer
- Whittier: first day (1970) / Garry Wills
- Truth and consequences (1977) / Ellen Willis
- Shochets (1987) / Michael Lesy
- From: The rainy season (1989) / Amy Wilentz
- Arguing with the Pope (1994) / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- Under the brush arbor (1995) / Dennis Covington
- The sacrifice (1997) / Anne Fadiman
- Heartland, Kansas (2004) / Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet
- Upon this rock (2004) / John Jeremiah Sullivan
- The aftermath (2006) / Matthew Teague
- Untitled (2011) / Francine Prose.