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An end to innocence ; essays on culture and politics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fiedler, Leslie A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [1955]
Subjects:
United States > Civilization.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
EE.UU. > Política y gobierno > 1945 > Discursos, ensayos, conferencias.
États-Unis > Civilisation.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-1989.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. An age of innocents: Hiss, Chambers, and the age of innocence
  • Afterthoughts on the Rosenbergs
  • McCarthy and the intellectuals
  • pt. 2. Innocence abroad: Italian pilgrimage: the discovery of America
  • The "good American"
  • Roman holiday
  • Looking backward: America from Europe
  • pt. 3. The end of innocence: Montana; or The end of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Come back to the raft ag'in, Huck honey!
  • Images of Walt Whitman
  • Some notes on F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Dead-end Werther: the bum as American culture hero
  • Adolescence and maturity in the American novel.