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Required Reading:
Why Our American Classics Matter Now

by Andrew Delbanco

ISBN 0374230072 / 9780374230074 / 0-374-23007-2
Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language English
Edition Hardcover
List price $24.00
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In his deeply felt new book, the author of the highly acclaimed Death of Satan shows why classic American writers remain indispensable in our age of uncertainty over what constitutes our common heritage. In superb chapters touching on Thoreau, Melville, Wharton, Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and others, Delbanco shows how each writer has enlarged the expressive range of the American language, as well as our imagined sense of American possibilities. [via]