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Reich: Reason; David McCullough: John Adams; Edmund Morris: Theodore Rex; Steve Neal: Happy Days Are Here Again; Amanda Smith: Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy; John A. Farrell: Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century; PART 3 THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL AND THE LITERARY; Raymond Carver: Hemingway Without Money 327 $aMichael Ryan: Secret LifePhilip Graham: How to Read an Unwritten Language; Tim O'Brien: In the Lake of the Woods; Peter Dexter: The Paperboy; John Updike: The Afterlife and Other Stories; John McGahern and Colm Toi?bi?n: Collected Stories, The Heather Blazing; Jim Crace: Signals of Distress; Robert Olen Butler: They Whisper; Richard Ford: Independence Day; Harvey Jacobs: American Goliath; Thomas Keneally: American Scoundrel; John L'Heureux: The Miracle; Toby Olson and Ellen Akins: At Sea, Public Life; Pinckney Benedict: Dogs of God; Rick Bass: Platte River 327 $aMichael Stephens: The Brooklyn Book of the DeadGraham Swift: Last Orders; Bob Shacochis: Swimming in the Volcano; Willie Morris: New York Days; Forward to the Past: SLF Album; Andrew Levy: The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y 330 $aWilliam O'Rourke's singular view of American life over the past 40 years shines forth in these short essays on subjects personal, political, and literary, which reveal a man of keen intellect and wide-ranging interests. They embrace everything from the state of the nation after 9/11 to the author's encounter with rap, from the masterminds of political makeovers to the rich variety of contemporary American writing. His reviews illuminate both the books themselves and the times in which we live, and his personal reflections engage even the most fearful events with a special humor and gentle p 410 0$aBreak Away Books 606 $aAmerican literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature. 676 $a814/.54 700 $aO'Rourke$b William$0858344 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462444303321 996 $aConfessions of a guilty freelancer$92102491 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01836nam 2200433 n 450 001 996393093103316 005 20200824121842.0 035 $a(CKB)4940000000111561 035 $a(EEBO)2240952236 035 $a(UnM)99869017e 035 $a(UnM)99869017 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000111561 100 $a19940713d1646 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn||||a|bb| 200 10$aAnglicus$b[electronic resource] $eor, An ephemeris for 1646. 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