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245 0 4 _aThe best American essays, 2002 /
_cedited and with an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
260 _aBoston, MA :
_bHoughton Mifflin,
_c2002.
300 _axvii, 376 p. ;
_c21 cm.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 _aAmerican essays
_y21st century.
700 1 _aGould, Stephen Jay.
700 1 _aAtwan, Robert.
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