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AskMen.com June 1, 2003 Bernie Alexander |
The Mystifying Life Of Ernest Hemingway Most scholars call him the greatest American writer of the 20th century. Some even go as far as saying that he was the greatest American writer ever. What do we really know about him? |
Reason February 2006 Nick Gillespie |
Mark Twain vs. Tom Sawyer In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain had invented the American archetype of the prankish boy with a taste for adventure. In Huckleberry Finn, Twain reveals in ugly detail the limitations of that adolescent mentality when confronting the reality of American race relations. |
Salon.com January 14, 2002 Gary Kamiya |
Big two-hearted Mark "Mark Twain," Ken Burns' new documentary, brings to feisty, heartbreaking life the most beloved -- and American -- of American writers... |
Salon.com August 18, 2000 Jonathan Franzen |
Chained The author of "The 27th City" picks five great American novels about slavery. |
Salon.com August 4, 2000 Mary Morris |
Book Bag: Straight from the heartland The author of "Nothing to Declare" picks six great books about the Midwest. |
Salon.com August 11, 2000 Laura Miller |
The death of the Red-Hot Center From literary giants tapping out the Great American novel through multiculturalism, Kmart realism and the Brat Pack to Oprah and your book club: A short history of fiction after 1960. |
Reason October 2006 Damon Root |
'A Glorious Liberty Document' The book Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July by James A. Colaiaco, documents Douglass' case for an anti-slavery Constitution. |
Salon.com October 25, 2001 King Kaufman |
Twainmania The sleepy town of Hannibal, Mo., braces itself for a deluge of Twain devotees inspired by a forthcoming Ken Burns documentary... |