The golden age of the American essay : 1945-1970 /
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Phillip Lopate
- The Nation: Democratic Vistas (1945) / James Agee
- Humor and Faith (1946) / Reinhold Niebuhr
- The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947) / George F. Kennan
- Paul Rosenfeld: Three Phases (1947) / Edmund Wilson
- The Dilemma of Liberal Democracy : should the majority rule? (1947) / Walter Lippmann
- The Gangster as Tragic Hero (1948) / Robert Warshow
- The Herd of Independent Minds (1948) / Harold Rosenberg
- The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (1948) / Robert K. Merton
- Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey! (1948) / Leslie Fieldler
- Stranger in the Village (1953) / James Baldwin
- Artists in Uniform (1953) / Mary McCarthy
- This Age of Conformity (1954) / Irving Howe
- Sootfall and Fallout (1956) / E. B. White
- On a Book Entitled Lolita (1956) / Vladimir Nabokov
- The University as Villain (1957) / Saul Bellow
- The Last Lover (1958) / Lionel Trilling
- A Good Appetite (1959) / A. J. Liebling
- Making It! (1959) / Seymour Krim
- Boston (1959) / Elizabeth Hardwick
- Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction (1960) / Flannery O'Connor
- Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (1960) / John Updike
- A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1960) / Randall Jarrell
- Modernist Painting (1961) / Clement Greenberg
- The Obligation to Endure (1962) / Rachel Carson
- An Evening With Jackie Kennedy (1962) / Norman Mailer
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Writing About Jews (1963) / Philip Roth
- Notes on "Camp" (1964) / Susan Sontag
- The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964) / Richard Hofstadter
- The Universal Trap (1964) / Paul Goodman
- The Girl of the Year (1964) / Tom Wolfe
- Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets (1965) / Edwin Denby
- The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) / N. Scott Momaday
- The Twenty-ninth Republican Convention (1969) / Gore Vidal
- The Blues Idiom and the Mainstream (1970) / Albert Murray
- One Night's Dying (1970) / Loren Eisely
- Home Is Two Places (1970) / Edward Hoagland
- On the Morning After the Sixties (1970) / Joan Didion.