TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Thomas C.
TI  - Twenty-five books that shaped America: how white whales, green lights, and restless spirits forged our national identity 
SN  - 9780061834400 (pbk.)
AV  - PS88 .F67 2011
U1  - 810.9 F754t 2011 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Bibliography
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - United States
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - 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; English Language & Literature
ER  -