{"product_id":"the-golden-age-of-the-american-essay-paperback-by-phillip-lopate","title":"The Golden Age of the American Essay Paperback by Phillip Lopate","description":"\n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eAnchor\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2021-04-06)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: 544\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780525567332\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 374.22 grams\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: 20.22 x 13.06 x 2.16 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form—from Normal Mailer to James Baldwin to Joan Didion—s\u003cb\u003eelected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in the arts inspired a flowering of literary culture. At the same time, the many problems that confronted mid-century America—racism, sexism, nuclear threat, war, poverty, and environmental degradation among them—proved fruitful topics for America's best minds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Age of the American Essay, \u003c\/i\u003ePhillip Lopate assembles a dazzling array of famous writers, critics, sociologists, theologians, historians, activists, theorists, humorists, poets, and novelists.  Here are writers like James Agee, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, Randall Jarrell, and Mary McCarthy, pivoting from the comic indignities of daily life to world peace, consumerism, and restaurants in Paris. Here is Norman Mailer on Jackie Kennedy, Vladimir Nabokov on \u003ci\u003eLolita,\u003c\/i\u003e Martin Luther King, Jr.'s \"Letter from Birmingham Jail,\" and Richard Hofstadter's \"The Paranoid Style in American Politics.\" Here are Gore Vidal, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Joan Didion, and many more, in a treasury of brilliant writing that has stood the test of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003ePHILLIP LOPATE is the author of \u003ci\u003eTo Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e and of four essay collections, \u003ci\u003eBachelorhood\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Against Joie de Vivre\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Portrait of My Body\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePortrait Inside My Head.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the editor of the anthologies \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Personal Essay, Writing New York,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Movie Critics\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. He is professor of writing at Columbia University's nonfiction MFA program, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    ","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43207908524193,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780525567332","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780525567332.jpg?v=1745987021","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/the-golden-age-of-the-american-essay-paperback-by-phillip-lopate","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}