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Famous American Books
Author: Robert B. Downs

Fifty essays on fifty different novels that impacted American culture. 1. Pilot major : Amerigo Vespuci's 'The four voyages of Amerigo Vespucci (1505-1506) 2. The first American : Captain John Smith's 'The generall historie of Virginia' (1624) 3. The puritan mind rampant : Michael Wigglesworth's 'Th... more »e day of doom' (1662) 4. God's spokesman : Cotton Mather's 'Magnalia Christi Americana' (1702) 5. Virginia gentleman : William Byrd's 'Histories of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina' (1728) 6. Electrical genius : Benjamin Franklin's 'Experiments and observations on electricity' (1751) 7. Land of promise : Hector St. John de CreÌvecoeur's 'Letters from an American farmer' (1782) 8. Father of the American language : Noah Webster's 'American spelling book' (1783) 9. American myth maker : Mason Locke Weems's 'The life of Washington the great' (1800) 10. Seaman's bible : Nathaniel Bowditch's 'The new American practical navigator' (1802) 11. Frontier romanticist : James Fenimore Cooper's 'Leatherstocking tales' (1823-1841) 12. King of ornithological painters : John James Audobon's 'The birds of America' (1827-1838) 13. First great American botanist : Asa Gray's 'Manual of the botany of the northern United States' (1836) 14. Voice from the forecastle : Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s 'Two years before the mast' (1840) 15. Historian of the American Indian : Francis Parkman's 'The Oregon trail' (1849) 16. Saga of the white whale : Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick' (1851) 17. Escape from materialism : Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden' (1854) 18. Paths of the sea : Matthew Fontaine Maury's 'The physical geography of the sea' (1855) 19. Poet of democracy : Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of grass' (1855) 20. Pluck and luck : Horatio Alger Jr.'s 'Ragged Dick' (1868) 21. Mental healer : Mary Baker Eddy's 'Science and health' (1875) 22. The great dissenter : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s 'The common law' (1881) 23. American epic : Mark Twain's 'The adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884) 24. Mother's darling : Frances Hodgson Burnett's 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' (1886) 25. British view of American democracy : James Bryce's 'The American commonwealth' (1888) 26. Founder of American psychology : William James's 'The principles of psychology' (1890) 27. Mother of level measurements : Fannie Farmer's 'The Boston Cooking-School cook book' (1896) 28. Predatory man : Thorstein Veblen's 'The theory of the leisure class' (1899) 29. Black messiah : Booker T. Washington's 'Up from slavery: an autobiography' (1901) 30. Birth of the Western : Owen Wister's 'The Virginian : a horseman of the plains' (1902) 31. Black man in a white man's world : W.E. Burghardt DuBois's 'The souls of black folk' (1903) 32. Birth of an octopus : Ida M. Tarbell's 'The history of the Standard Oil Company' (1904) 33. Explaining the universe : Henry Adams's 'The education of Henry Adams' (1906) 34. Science of society : William Graham Sumner's 'Folkways' (1907) 35. Dutch boy makes good : Edward Bok's 'The Americanization of Edward Bok' (1920) 36. Revolt from the village : Sinclair Lewis's 'Main Street' (1920) 37. Social arbiter : Emily Post's 'Etiquette: the blue book of social usage' (1922) 38. Labor leader : Samuel Gomper's 'Seventy years of life and labor' (1925) 39. Master builder : Frank Lloyd Wright's 'Autobiography' (1932) 40. Society versus the individual : Ruth Benedict's 'Patterns of culture' (1934) 41. Liberty versus security : Walter Lippmann's 'An inquiry into the principles of the good society' (1937) 42. Medieval village to modern megalopolis : Lewis Mumford's 'The culture of cities' (1938) 43. Okies and Arkies : John Steinbeck's 'The grapes of wrath' (1939) 44. Nations united : Wendell Willkie's 'One world' (1943) 45. Mother's constant companion : Benjamin Spock's 'The common sense book of baby and child care' (1946) 46. The proper study of man : Alfred C. Kinsey's 'Sexual behavior in the human male' (1948) 47. Studies in integrity : John F. Kennedy's 'Profiles in courage' (1956) 48. The dismal trade : Jessica Mitford's 'The American way of death' (1963) 49. Consumers' crusader : Ralph Nader's 'Unsafe at any speed' (1965) 50. Too many people : Paul R. Erlich's 'The population bomb' (1968)

ISBN-13: 9780070176652
ISBN-10: 0070176655
Publication Date: 1971
Pages: 377
Edition: Unknown
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Book Type: Hardcover
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