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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"
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"