The Best American Essays, 2002
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The tenth muse / Jacques Barzun -- Turning point / Rudolph Chelminski -- Winner take nothing / Bernard Cooper -- The countess of Stanlein Restored / Nicholas Delbanco -- Welcome to cancerland / Barbara Ehrenreich -- My father's brain / Jonathan Franzen -- Final cut / Atul Gawande -- Who we are / David Halberstam -- For patriot dreams / Christopher Hitchens -- The lion in winter / Sebastian Junger -- Fire / Amy Kolen -- The anti-Jefferson / Andrew Levy -- The price we pay / Adam Mayblum -- College : the end of the golden age / Louis Menand -- Out of the ordinary / Cullen Murphy -- Merced / Danielle Ofri -- Busted in New York / Darryle Pinckney -- Word on the street / Richard Price and Anne Hudson-Price -- Matriculation fixation / Joe Queenan -- Inside the bunker / John Sack -- Why literature? / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The meaning of Timothy McVeigh / Gore Vidal -- The dramaturgy of death / Garry Wills -- Moonrise / Penny Wolfson.
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SERIES
Best American series.
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002.
Year Published: 2002
Description: xvii, 376 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0618213880 (hbk.) :
0618049320 (pbk.)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Gould, Stephen Jay.
Atwan, Robert.
SUBJECTS
American essays -- 20th century.