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An American album, one hundred and fifty years of Harper's magazine, edited by Lewis H. Lapham & Ellen Rosenbush ; foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr

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An American album

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edited by Lewis H. Lapham & Ellen Rosenbush ; foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr

one hundred and fifty years of Harper's magazine

The town-ho's story / Herman Melville -- Union saving -- Uttoxeter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The siege of Fort Atkinson -- The dividing line between federal and local authority / Stephan A. Douglas -- The battle of Antietam / George F. Noyes -- Psyche / Hans Christian Andersen -- The fortunes of war / Robert Tomes -- The march to the sea / Herman Melville -- The freedman's story / M. Schele de Vere -- The plains, as I crossed them ten years ago / Horace Greeley -- Charles Dickens / George William Curtis -- Down the Mississppi / George Ward Nichols -- Political life in America / George William Curtis -- The little laborers of New York City / C.L. Brace -- Panic in Wall Street -- Song of the redwood-tree / Walt Whitman -- A song / Christina Rossetti -- Boss Tweed / George William Curtis -- Washington Square / Henry James -- Women's rights / George William Curtis -- Our public land policy / Veeder B. Paine -- Ulysses S. Grant ; Strikes and anarchy / George William CurtisHis ship / James Russell Lowell -- Fame's little day / Sarah Orne Jewett -- St. Clair's defeat / Theodore Roosevelt -- With the Fifth corps / Frederic Remington -- The angel child / Stephen Crane -- Extracts from Adam's diary and Eve's diary / Mark Twain -- The quicksand / Edith Wharton -- The integrity of American character / Grover Cleveland -- The sun-dog trail / Jack London -- Feeding the mind / Lewis Carroll -- The informer / Joseph Conrad -- The enchanted bluff / Willa Sibert Cather -- Night in a suburb / Thomas Hardy -- The rabbit-pen / Sherwood Anderson -- The country newspaper / Wiliam Allen White -- My plunge into the slums / M.E. Ravage -- The country doctor / Theodore Dreiser -- Mother Goose: propagandist / Don Marquis -- Eighty years and after / William Dean Howells -- The gods of the copybook maxims / Rudyard Kipling -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- To the ghost of John Milton / Carl Sandburg -- Crime and the alarmists / Clarence S. DarrowIn praise of freedom / Will Durant -- Re-discovering Europe / Edward S. Martin -- Aimee Semple McPherson / Sarah Comstock -- My countryside, then and now / Malcolm Cowley -- Not marble nor the gilded monuments / Archibald MacLeish -- The lady in the looking-glass / Virginia Woolf -- The peculiar weakness of Mr. Hoover / Walter Lippmann -- Sonnet / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- "Listen to this, dear" / James Thurber -- A death in the country / Stephen Vincent Benét -- What Hitler wants / Leon Trotsky -- Was my life worth living? / Emma Goldman -- The future of English / H.L. Mencken -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Solitude / Rainer Maria Rilke -- America's medieval women / Pearl S. Buck -- Walden pond / E.B. White -- Since yesterday / Frederick Lewis Allen -- Who goes Nazi? / Dorothy Thompson -- The wide net / Eudora Welty -- What you don't know won't hurt you / Richard Wright -- The people at war / John Dos PassosGoing home / Alfred Kazin -- Iwo Jima before H-hour / John P. Marquand -- Our worst wartime mistake / Eugene V. Rostow -- The decision to use the atomic bomb / Henry L. Stimson -- Gertrude Stein: a self-portrait / Katherine Anne Porter -- Anywhere in Europe / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- Art for Art's sake / E.M. Forster -- Vega / John Cheever -- The century / Bernard DeVoto -- Evangelist / Joyce Cary -- The silent generation / Thornton Wilder -- Lamb to the slaughter / Roald Dahl -- The great Wall Street crash / John Kenneth Galbraith -- The sound of Morrish laughter / Harold Brodkey -- On fear: the South in labor / William Faulkner -- The farmer's wife / Anne Sexton -- Recollections from beyond the last rope / Philip Roth -- Mushrooms / Sylvia Plath -- Vermont / John Updike -- The dangerous road before Martin Luther King / James Baldwin -- Miami notebook : Cassius Clay and Malcolm X / George PlimptonThe paranoid style in American politics / Richard Hofstadter -- Mississippi: the fallen paradise / Walker Percy -- Long view: negro / Langston Hughes -- The celebration / James Dickey -- History by the ounce / Barbara W. Tuchman -- Silences: when writers don't write / Tillie Olsen -- The player piano / Randall Jarell -- Miami Beach and Chicago / Norman Mailer -- Survival U / John Fischer -- My Lai 4 / Seymour M. Hersh -- Is there a place for morality in foreign affairs? / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- The death of Salvador Allende / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The sound of tinkling brass / Murray Kempton -- Innocence in the Galapagos / Annie Dillard -- To the Disney station / Michael Harrington -- Liberty under siege / Walter Karp -- The soccer war / Ryszard Kapuscinski -- The moment before the gun went off / Nadine Gordimer -- Untime of the Imam / Salman Rushdie -- When you're a crip (or a blood) -- Users, like me / Gail RegierReassurance / Allan Gurganus -- Stalking the billion-footed beast / Tom Wolfe -- Chronicle of a debacle foretold / L.J. Davis -- Late Victorians / Richard Rodriguez -- Ladies and gentlemen / Joyce Carol Oates -- The rake / David Mamet -- The 400-pound CEO / George Saunders -- The last shot / Darcy Frey -- On not being a victim / Mary Gaitskill -- Morte de Nixon / Lewis H. Lapham -- Ticket to the fair / David Foster Wallace -- Where worlds collide / Pico Iyer -- Beyond belief / Fenton Johnson -- Exorcism / Lewis H. Lapham

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