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| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| The Kitchen | 3 | |
| "Beyond!" | 8 | |
| Mrs. Solovey | 14 | |
| Yeshua | 25 | |
| Brownsville: 1931 | 31 | |
| The New Republic: 1934 | 36 | |
| At V. F. Calverton's: 1936 | 40 | |
| Preface to On Native Grounds | 51 | |
| The Opening Struggle for Realism | 56 | |
| Two Educations: Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser | 65 | |
| An Insurgent Scholar: Thorstein Veblen | 81 | |
| The New Realism: Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis | 90 | |
| Willa Cather's Elegy | 105 | |
| All the Lost Generations: F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Pasos | 114 | |
| Provincetown, 1940: Bertram Wolfe, Mary McCarthy, Philip Rahv | 159 | |
| Delmore Schwartz | 166 | |
| Saul Bellow and Lionel Trilling | 170 | |
| The Fascination and Terror of Ezra Pound | 181 | |
| William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury | 200 | |
| Southern Isolates: Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy | 213 | |
| Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: The Historian at the Center | 222 | |
| President Kennedy and Other Intellectuals | 229 | |
| Professional Observers: Cheever, Salinger, and Updike | 245 | |
| The Earthly City of the Jews: Bellow, Malamud, and Roth | 255 | |
| The Imagination of Fact: Capote and Mailer | 270 | |
| The "Single Voice" of Ralph Ellison | 282 | |
| Two Cassandras: Joan Didion and Joyce Carol Oates | 289 | |
| James Wright: The Gift of Feeling | 300 | |
| The Intoxicating Sense of Possibility: Thomas Jefferson at Monticello | 307 | |
| Emerson: The Priest Departs, The Divine Literatus Comes | 314 | |
| Thoreau and American Power | 325 | |
| Hawthorne: The Ghost Sense | 336 | |
| "Melville Is Dwelling Somewhere in New York" | 344 | |
| Walt Whitman: I Am the Man | 370 | |
| Lincoln: The Almighty Has His Own Purposes | 383 | |
| Emily Dickinson: Called Back | 402 | |
| Creatures of Circumstance: Mark Twain | 407 | |
| William and Henry James: Our Passion Is Our Task | 423 | |
| The Death of the Past: Henry Adams and T. S. Elit | 432 | |
| Edmund Wilson at Wellfleet | 455 | |
| Hannah Arendt: The Burden of Our Time | 467 | |
| The Directness of Josephine Herbst | 477 | |
| Saving My Soul at the Plaza | 481 | |
| A Parade in the Rain | 499 | |
| To Be a Critic | 506 | |
| Appendix | 523 | |
| Index | 527 |
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Brandie Fowler
reviewed Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings on February 26, 2017 Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings
A bit dense at times but an otherwise enlightening analysis of the presence of the alphabet in American culture, with an interesting examination of the relationship between alphabetization and gender.
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