TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallace,David Foster
TI  - The best American essays 2007
SN  - 9780618709274
AV  - PS688.2 .B47 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - American essays
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction: deciderization 2007--a special report / David Foster Wallace -- Werner / Jo Ann Beard -- The freedom to offend / Ian Burma -- Iraq: the war of the imagination / Mark Danner -- Fathead's hard times / W.S. Di Piero -- An orgy of power / George Gessert -- What the dog saw / Malcolm Gladwell -- Afternoon of the sex children / Mark Greif -- Operation Gomorrah / Marione Ingram -- Loaded / Garret Keizer -- Petrified / John Lahr -- Name that tone / Louis Menand -- Shakers / Daniel Orozco -- Out from Xanadu / Cynthia Ozick -- Passion flowers in winter / Molly Peacock -- In the Mosque of Imam Ali / Phillip Robertson -- Disappointment / Richard Rodriguez -- Rules of Engagement / Elaine Scarry -- A carnivore's credo / Roger Scruton -- What should a billionaire give--and what should you? / Peter Singer -- Dragon slayers / Jerald Walker -- Apocalypse now / Edward O. Wilson -- Contributor's notes -- Notable essays of 2006
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