Twenty-five books that shaped America : how white whales, green lights, and restless spirits forged our national identity /
Foster, Thomas C.
Twenty-five books that shaped America : how white whales, green lights, and restless spirits forged our national identity / 25 books that shaped America Thomas C. Foster. - 1st ed. - New York : Harper, c2011. - xxi, 323 p. ; 21 cm.
Maybe just a little made-up: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- A man, a plan, a flintlock: The last of the Mohicans -- The allegory man cometh: The scarlet letter -- Gotta get back to the pond and set my soul free: Walden -- I've been workin' on the whale-road: Moby-Dick -- The good gray poet, my eye!: Leaves of grass -- Girls gone mild: Little women -- About a boy--and a raft: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Twofer: A boy's will and North of Boston -- In praise of prairie: My Ántonia -- A whole heap of ashes: The great Gatsby -- Life is a carnival: The sun also rises -- It takes a weary man to sing a weary song: The weary blues -- The bird is the word: The Maltese falcon -- So big: U.S.A. -- The winepress of injustice: The grapes of wrath -- Like a hurricane: Their eyes were watching God -- He ain't heavy, he's my cousin: Go down, Moses -- American Candide: The adventures of Augie March -- Me and my shadow: On the road -- When reading got good: The cat in the hat -- Walk a mile in my shoes: To kill a mockingbird -- Not in Kansas anymore: The crying of Lot 49 -- Race, relations: Song of Solomon -- Home, home on the res: Love medicine -- Conclusion: Fifteen more and the G.A.N.
9780061834400 (pbk.) 0061834408 (pbk.)
2011381750
American literature--History and criticism.
American literature--Bibliography.
National characteristics, American.
United States--Social life and customs.
PS88 / .F67 2011
810.9 F754t 2011
Twenty-five books that shaped America : how white whales, green lights, and restless spirits forged our national identity / 25 books that shaped America Thomas C. Foster. - 1st ed. - New York : Harper, c2011. - xxi, 323 p. ; 21 cm.
Maybe just a little made-up: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- A man, a plan, a flintlock: The last of the Mohicans -- The allegory man cometh: The scarlet letter -- Gotta get back to the pond and set my soul free: Walden -- I've been workin' on the whale-road: Moby-Dick -- The good gray poet, my eye!: Leaves of grass -- Girls gone mild: Little women -- About a boy--and a raft: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Twofer: A boy's will and North of Boston -- In praise of prairie: My Ántonia -- A whole heap of ashes: The great Gatsby -- Life is a carnival: The sun also rises -- It takes a weary man to sing a weary song: The weary blues -- The bird is the word: The Maltese falcon -- So big: U.S.A. -- The winepress of injustice: The grapes of wrath -- Like a hurricane: Their eyes were watching God -- He ain't heavy, he's my cousin: Go down, Moses -- American Candide: The adventures of Augie March -- Me and my shadow: On the road -- When reading got good: The cat in the hat -- Walk a mile in my shoes: To kill a mockingbird -- Not in Kansas anymore: The crying of Lot 49 -- Race, relations: Song of Solomon -- Home, home on the res: Love medicine -- Conclusion: Fifteen more and the G.A.N.
9780061834400 (pbk.) 0061834408 (pbk.)
2011381750
American literature--History and criticism.
American literature--Bibliography.
National characteristics, American.
United States--Social life and customs.
PS88 / .F67 2011
810.9 F754t 2011