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Jay PariniPublication Details
Book1st edDoubleday2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS169.N35 P37 2008 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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In Promised Land, Jay Parini repossesses that vibrant, intellectual heritage by examining the life and times of thirteen “books that changed America.” Their influence remains pervasive, however hidden, and in his essays Jay Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and altered how we think and act in the world. The thirteen “books that changed America”: Of Plymouth Plantation ? The Promised Land ? The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American literature — History and criticism
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Literature and morals — United States — History
- Literature and society — United States — History
- Books — United States — Reviews
- Books and reading — United States
- United States — In literature
- United States — Historiography
Notes
- An analysis of the thirteen books that changed America
Contents
- Of Plymouth Plantation
- The Federalist papers
- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The journals of Lewis and Clark
- Walden
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The souls of black folk
- The promised land
- How to win friends and influence people
- The common sense book of baby and child care
- On the road
- The feminine mystique
- 100 more books that changed America
ISBN
- 9780385522762
- 0385522762
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