American Ground: Vistas, Visions & Revisions - A Reader in American Studies

415 pp. A collection of writings by American authors such as Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, Edmund Wilson, W.E.B. DuBois, and Adrienne Rich. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Preface; Prologue: The Survey Begun; Part One: A New Commonwealth - Puritans and Rebels, The One and the Many; Part Two: Pluralistic Frontiers - The Dream of the West, Philosophical Frontiers; Part Three: Dreams of Success - Gilded Dreams, Disenchantment and Depression; Part Four: Irony in American Life - Some Dreams Deferred: Color and Gender, Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?; Epilogue: The Survey - Finished?; Some Novels About American Ground.