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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Aaron Copland,
Abraham Lincoln,
Alexander Calder,
August Heckscher,
Clifton Fadiman,
David Donald,
David Riesman,
Edgar P. Richardson,
Edward N. Waters,
Elmer Ellis,
Eric Bentley,
Ernest Sutherland Bates,
F. O. Mathiessen,
Finley Peter Dunne,
Fred C. Kelly,
Gabriel A. Almond,
George H. T. Kimble,
George Santayana,
Gilbert Chase,
H. L. Mencken,
Harry Partch,
Henry Adams,
Henry C. Adams,
Henry Cowell,
Henry Goodman,
Herbert W. Schneider,
Jacques Barzun,
James Johnson Sweeney,
John I. H. Baur,
John Jay Chapman,
Kin Hubbard,
Lafcadio Hearn,
Lionel Trilling,
Max M. Laserson,
Mr. Dooley,
Newton Arvin,
Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Orville Wright,
Phyllis McGinley,
Ralph Barton Perry,
Sidney Cowell,
Sinclair Lewis,
Victor Herbert,
William James,
Woodrow Wilson
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