About this book
A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long introduction by his friend and colleague Van Wyck Brooks. Includes the influential and perennially relevant essay "Trans-National America" as well as a fragment from the autobiographical novel on which Bourne was working at the time of his death. - Summary by Ben Adams
Chapters (15)
1History of a Literary Radical
2Our Cultural Humility
3Six Portraits, part 1
4Six Portraits, part 2
5This Older Generation
6A Mirror of the Middle West
7Ernest: or a Parent for a Day
8On Discussion
9The Puritan's Will to Power
10The Immanence of Dostoevsky
11The Art of Theodore Dreister
12The Uses of Infallibility
13Impressions of Europe
14Trans-National America
15Fragment of a Novel

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