The Best American Essays. 2007
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Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction: deciderization 2007 - a special report / David Foster Wallace -- Werner / Jo Ann Beard -- The freedom to offend / Ian Burma -- Iraq: the war of the imagination / Mark Danner -- Fathead's hard times / W.S. Di Piero -- An orgy of power / George Gessert -- What the dog saw / Malcolm Gladwell -- Afternoon of the sex children / Mark Greif -- Operation Gomorrah / Marione Ingram -- Loaded / Garret Keizer -- Petrified / John Lahr -- Name that tone / Louis Menand -- Shakers / Danie Orozco -- Out from Xanadu / Cynthia Ozick -- Passion flowers in winter / Molly Peacock -- In the Mosque of Imam Ali / Phillip Robertson -- Disappointment / Richard Rodriguez -- Rules of Engagement / Elaine Scarry -- A carnivore's credo / Roger Scruton -- What should a billionaire give - and what should you? / Peter Singer -- Dragon slayers / Jerald Walker -- Apocalypse now / Edward O. Wilson -- Contributor's notes -- Notable essays of 2006.
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Best American series.
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: xxiv, 307 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780618709274
0618709266
9780618709267
0618709274
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Wallace, David Foster.
Atwan, Robert.
SUBJECTS
American essays -- 21st century.