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An American album: one hundred and fifty years of Harper's magazine
Publisher
Franklin Square Press
Publication Date
2000
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st ed.
Town-Ho's Story / Herman Melville 2
Editor's Table: Union Saving 12
Uttoxeter / Nathaniel Hawthorne 17
Siege of Fort Atkinson 20
Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority / Stephen A. Douglas 29
Battle of Antietam / George F. Noyes 42
Psyche / Hans Christian Andersen 47
Fortunes of War / Robert Tomes 53
March to the Sea / Herman Melville 57
Freedman's Story / M. Schele de Vere 59
Plains, As I Crossed Them Ten Years Ago / Horace Greeley 68
Editor's Easy Chair: Charles Dickens / George William Curtis 72
Down the Mississippi / George Ward Nichols 74
Editor's Easy Chair: Political Life in America / George William Curtis 81
Little Laborers of New York City / C. L. Brace 84
Panic in Wall Street 87
Song of the Redwood-Tree / Walt Whitman 93
A Song / Christina Rossetti 97
Editor's Easy Chair: Boss Tweed / George William Curtis 98
Washington Square / Henry James 102
Editor's Easy Chair: Women's Rights / George William 106
Our Public Land Policy / Veeder B. Paine 108
Editor's Easy Chair: Ulysses S. Grant / George William Curtis 113
Editor's Easy Chair: Strikes and Anarchy / George William Curtis 115
His Ship / James Russell Lowell 118
Fame's Little Day / Sarah Orne Jewett 120
St. Clair's Defeat / Theodore Roosevelt 125
With the Fifth Corps / Frederic Remington 133
Angel Child / Stephen Crane 140
Extracts from Adam's Diary and Eve's Diary / Mark Twain 146
Quicksand / Edith Wharton 158
Integrity of American Character / Grover Cleveland 166
Sun-dog Trail / Jack London 168
Feeding the Mind / Lewis Carroll 175
Informer / Joseph Conrad 178
Enchanted Bluff / Willa Sibert Cather 189
Night in a Suburb / Thomas Hardy 196
Rabbit-pen / Sherwood Anderson 197
Country Newspaper / William Allen White 201
My Plunge into the Slums / M. E. Ravage 205
Country Doctor / Theodore Dreiser 210
Lion's Mouth: Mother Goose, Propagandist / Don Marquis 217
Eighty Years and After / William Dean Howells 219
Gods of the Copybook Maxims / Rudyard Kipling 226
Fire and Ice / Robert Frost 228
To the Ghost of John Milton / Carl Sandburg 229
Crime and the Alarmists / Clarence S. Darrow 230
In Praise of Freedom / Will Durant 235
Editor's Easy Chair: Re-discovering Europe / Edward S. Martin 241
Aimee Semple McPherson / Sarah Comstock 243
My Countryside, Then and Now / Malcolm Cowley 251
Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments / Archibald MacLeish 256
Lady in the Looking-Glass / Virginia Woolf 257
Peculiar Weakness of Mr. Hoover / Walter Lippmann 262
Sonnet / Edna St. Vincent Millay 267
"Listen to This, Dear" / James Thurber 268
A Death in the Country / Stephen Vincent Benet 270
What Hitler Wants / Leon Trotsky 280
Was My Life Worth Living? / Emma Goldman 285
Future of English / H. L. Mencken 290
Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck 295
Solitude / Rainer Maria Rilke 301
America's Medieval Women / Pearl S. Buck 302
One Man's Meat: Walden Pond / E. B. White 308
Since Yesterday / Frederick Lewis Allen 312
Who Goes Nazi? / Dorothy Thompson 316
Wide Net / Eudora Welty 321
What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You / Richard Wright 332
People at War / John Dos Passos 336
Going Home / Alfred Kazin 343
Iwo Jima Before H-Hour / John P. Marquand 346
Our Worst Wartime Mistake / Eugene V. Rostow 352
Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb / Henry L. Stimson 359
Gertrude Stein: A Self-Portrait / Katherine Anne Porter 365
Anywhere in Europe / Anne Morrow Lindbergh 372
Art for Art's Sake / E. M. Forster 375
Vega / John Cheever 379
Century / Bernard DeVoto 388
Evangelist / Joyce Cary 393
Silent Generation / Thornton Wilder 396
Lamb to thes Slaughter / Roald Dahl 399
Great Wall Street Crash / John Kenneth Galbraith 404
Sound of Moorish Laughter / Harold Brodkey 408
On Fear: The South in Labor / William Faulkner 414
Farmer's Wife / Anne Sexton 417
Recollections from Beyond the Last Rope / Philip Roth 418
Mushrooms / Sylvia 426
Vermont / John Updike 427
Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King / James Baldwin 428
Miami Notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X / George Plimpton 438
Paranoid Style in American Politics / Richard Hofstadter 445
Mississippi: The Fallen Paradise / Walker Percy 452
Long View: Negro / Langston Hughes 458
Celebration / James Dickey 459
History by the Ounce / Barbara W. Tuchman 461
Silences: When Writers Don't Write / Tillie Olsen 465
Player Piano / Randall Jarrell 472
Miami Beach and Chicago / Norman Mailer 473
Editor's Easy Chair: Survival U / John Fischer 478
My Lai 4 / Seymour M. Hersh 484
Is There a Place for Morality in Foreign Affairs? / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 509
Everyday Use / Alice Walker 515
Death of Salvador Allende / Gabriel Garcia Marquez 520
Sound of Tinkling Brass / Murray Kempton 526
Innocence in the Galapagos / Annie Dillard 530
To the Disney Station / Michael Harrington 537
Liberty Under Siege / Walter Karp 546
Soccer War / Ryszard Kapuscinski 558
Moment Before the Gun Went Off / Nadine Gordimer 568
Untime of the Imam / Salman Rushdie 571
When You're a Crip (Or a Blood) 577
Users, Like Me / Gail Regier 586
Reassurance / Allan Gurganus 590
Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast / Tom Wolfe 595
Chronicle of a Debacle Foretold / L. J. Davis 606
Late Victorians / Richard Rodriguez 620
Ladies and Gentlemen / Joyce Carol Oates 628
Rake / David Mamet 632
400-Pound CEO / George Saunders 635
Last Shot / Darcy Frey 643
On Not Being a Victim / Mary Gaitskill 657
Notebook: Morte De Nixon / Lewis H. Lapham 663
Ticket to the Fair / David Foster Wallace 668
Where Worlds Collide / Pico Iyer 683
Beyond Belief / Fenton Johnson 690
Notebook: Exorcism / Lewis H. Lapham 699.
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American literature
American literature -- 19th century
American literature -- 20th century
Civilization
Literary collections
Social life and customs
United States -- Civilization -- 19th century -- Miscellanea
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Miscellanea
United States -- Literary collections
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Miscellanea
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Miscellanea
American literature -- 19th century
American literature -- 20th century
Civilization
Literary collections
Social life and customs
United States -- Civilization -- 19th century -- Miscellanea
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Miscellanea
United States -- Literary collections
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Miscellanea
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Miscellanea
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