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These United States : portraits of America from the 1920s
Title:
These United States : portraits of America from the 1920s
Author:
Borus, Daniel H.
Publication Information:
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992.
Physical Description:
xii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
Articles originally published in the Nation between 1922 and 1925.
Language:
English
Contents:
The unexplored twenties : "These United States" and the quest for diversity / Daniel H. Borus -- Divided we stand / The editors -- Alabama : a study in ultra-violet / Clement Wood -- Arizona : the land of the joyous adventure / Mary Austin -- Arkansas : a native proletariat / C.L. Edson -- California : the prodigious / George P. West -- Colorado : two generations / Easley S. Jones -- Connecticut : a nation in miniature / Don C. Seitz -- Delaware : the ward of a feudal family / Arthur Warner -- Florida : the desert and the rose / Clara G. Stillman -- Georgia : invisible empire state / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois -- Idaho : a remnant of the old frontier / M.R. Stone -- Illinois : first province of the middle kingdom / Howard Vincent O'Brien -- Indiana : her soil and light / Theodore Dreiser -- Iowa : a mortgaged Eldorado / Johan J. Smertenko.

Kansas : a Puritan survival / William Allen White -- Kentucky : where men die standing / Ben Lucien Burman -- Louisiana (Madame de la Louisiane) / Basil Thompson -- The state of Maine--"down East" / Robert Herrick -- Maryland : apex of normalcy / H.L. Mencken -- Massachusetts : a Roman conquest / John Macy -- Michigan : the Fordizing of a pleasant peninsula / Leonard Lanson Cline -- Minnesota : the Norse state / Sinclair Lewis -- Mississippi : heart of Dixie / Beulah Amidon Ratliff -- Missouri : doesn't want to be shown / Manley O. Hudson -- Montana : land of the copper collar / Arthur Fisher -- Nebraska : the end of the first cycle / Willa Sibert Cather -- Nevada : beautiful desert of buried hopes / Anne Martin -- New Hampshire : not yet abandoned / Ralph D. Paine -- New Jersey : the slave of two cities / Edmund Wilson, Jr.

New Mexico : a relic of ancient America / Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant -- New York : I. the city--work of man / Ernest H. Gruening -- New York : II. state of unwilling progress / Charles W. Wood -- North Carolina : a militant mediocracy / Robert Watson Winston -- North Dakota : a twentieth-century Valley Forge / Robert George Paterson -- Ohio : I'll say we've done well / Sherwood Anderson -- Oklahoma : low jacks and the crooked game / Burton Rascoe -- Oregon : a slighted beauty / Charles H. Chapman -- Pennsylvania : still a keystone / Reginald Wright Kauffman -- Rhode Island : a lively experiment / Robert Cloutman Dexter -- South Carolina : a lingering fragrance / Ludwig Lewisohn -- South Dakota : state without end / Hayden Carruth -- Tennessee : three-quarters of bewilderment / E.E. Miller.

Texas : the big Southwestern specimen / George Clifton Edwards -- Utah : apocalypse of the desert / Murray E. King -- Vermont : our rich little poor state / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Virginia : a gentle dominion / Douglas Freeman -- Washington : the dawn of a tomorrow / Robert Whitaker -- West Virginia : a mine-field melodrama / James M. Cain -- Wisconsin : a voice from the middle border / Zona Gale -- Wyoming : a maverick citizenry / Walter C. Hawes.
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ISBN:
9780801427473

9780801480263
Format :
Book