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245 0 4 _aThe best American essays 2007 /
_cedited and with an introduction by David Foster Wallace.
260 _aBoston :
_bHoughton Mifflin,
_c2007.
300 _axxiv, 307 p. ;
_c22 cm.
440 0 _aBest American series.
505 0 _aForeword / 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
650 0 _aAmerican essays
_y21st century.
700 1 _aWallace, David Foster.
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