American Panorama
Short critical introductions to books recommended in American Panorama, Eric Larrabee, ed., New York: New York University Press, 1957. Kessinger Publishing Company [reprint], 2010.
This volume’s subtitle summarizes the Carnegie Foundation project: ”Essays by Fifteen American Critics on 350 Books Past and Present Which Portray the U.S.A. in Its Many Aspects”. Please click on either link above to view more details of the project, Barzun’s contributions to it, and recommendations of his own books included in the set.
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William James,
Lionel Trilling,
Phyllis McGinley,
H. L. Mencken,
George Santayana,
Abraham Lincoln,
Harry Partch,
Sinclair Lewis,
Henry Adams,
Eric Bentley,
John Jay Chapman,
Gilbert Chase,
Aaron Copland,
Finley Peter Dunne,
Mr. Dooley,
Lafcadio Hearn,
F. O. Mathiessen,
Ralph Barton Perry,
Edgar P. Richardson,
David Riesman,
Orville Wright,
Newton Arvin,
Henry C. Adams,
John I. H. Baur,
Gabriel A. Almond,
Ernest Sutherland Bates,
Henry Cowell,
Sidney Cowell,
David Donald,
Elmer Ellis,
Henry Goodman,
August Heckscher,
Woodrow Wilson,
Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Kin Hubbard,
Fred C. Kelly,
George H. T. Kimble,
Max M. Laserson,
Herbert W. Schneider,
James Johnson Sweeney,
Alexander Calder,
Edward N. Waters,
Victor Herbert
