The best American essays, 2002 / 
edited and with an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould ; Robert Atwan, series editor. 
 - Boston, MA :  Houghton Mifflin,  2002. 
 - xvii, 376 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: To open a millennium / Stephen Jay Gould -- Tenth Muse / Jacques Barzun -- Turning point / Rudolph Chelminski -- Winner take nothing / Bernard Cooper -- Countess of Stanlein restored / Nicholas Delbanco -- Welcome to cancerland / Barbara Ehrenreich -- My father's brain / Jonathan Franzen -- Final cut / Atul Gawande -- Who we are / David Halberstam -- For patriot dreams / Christopher Hitchens -- Lion in winter / Sebastian Junger -- Fire / Amy Kolen -- Anti-Jefferson / Andrew Levy -- Price we pay / Adam Mayblum -- College: end of the golden age / Louis Menard -- Out of the ordinary / Cullen Murphy -- Merced / Danielle Ofri -- Busted in New York / Darryl Pinckney -- Word on the street / Richard Price and Anne Hudson-Price -- Matriculation fixation / Joe Queenan -- Inside the bunker / John Sack -- Why literature? / Mario Vargas Llosa -- Meaning of Timothy McVeigh / Gore Vidal -- Dramaturgy of death / Garry Wills -- Moonrise / Penny Wolfson. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0618049320 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American essays--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS688.2  / .B47 2002