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A one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their formfrom Normal Mailer to James Baldwin to Joan Didions elected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate 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 Americaracism, sexism, nuclear threat, war, poverty, and environmental degradation among themproved 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 "Le

Author

Phillip Lopate, 1943-

Publisher

New York: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593312810

Subjects

Literary Collections, History, Literary Fiction