The American City: Literary Sources & Documents (Helm Information-Literary Sources & Documents)

The American City: Literary Sources & Documents (Helm Information-Literary Sources & Documents)

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Book Description
The American City offers a wide range of material on the city, supplemented with extensive readings on some of the U.S.'s leading cities. The essays are enhanced by maps, engravings, photos, and paintings. Selected contents and contributors include:

*Black Americans and the City (John Locke, Ben Johnson, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes)
*The City and the Architect (Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright)
*The City in Crisis: A 20th Century Overview
*New York (Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frank O'Hara)
*Boston (Henry James, T. S. Eliot)
*Chicago (Rudyard Kipling, Theodore Dreiser)
*New Orleans (Mark Twain, Kate Chopin)
*Los Angeles (Norman Mailer, Aldous Huxley)
*San Francisco (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg)
*Washington, D.C. (Robert Lowell, Walt Whitman)

The American City: Literary Sources & Documents (Helm Information-Literary Sources & Documents),Graham Clarke,Routledge,1873403208,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Reference,Sociology,Urban History

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