A review by vdarcangelo
The Best American Essays of the Century by Robert Atwan, Joyce Carol Oates

4.0

Faves:

Mark Twain: "Corn-pone Opinions"

Henry Adams: "A Law of Acceleration"

John Muir: "Stickeen"

William James: "The Moral Equivalent of War"

Randolph Bourne: "The Handicapped"

Jane Addams: "The Devil Baby at Hull-House"

H.L. Mencken: "The Hills of Zion"

F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The Crack-Up"

Tom Wolfe: "Putting Daddy On"

Vladimir Nabokov: "Perfect Past"

Michael Herr: "Illumination Rounds"

Joan Didion: "The White Album"

Gretel Ehrlich: "The Solace of Open Spaces"

Edward Hoagland: "Heaven and Nature"

Stephen Jay Gould: "The Creation Myths of Cooperstown"