E. B. White
2) On democracy
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Anchored by an introduction by Jon Meacham, this concise collection of essays, letters, and poems from one of this country's most eminent literary voices sheds much-needed historical context on the state of the nation and offers a ray of hope for the future of our society; for "as long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman...the scene is not desolate.""--
Author
Series
McNally editions volume no. 35
Publisher
McNally Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Over more than fifty years at the New Yorker, E. B. White came to define a kind of ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane. He also did more than any writer to define his favorite city. His classic Here Is New York captured a moment in the life of Manhattan with precision and love--but his was no fleeting infatuation. In 'New York sketches', the first collection of his casual pieces about the city, White ranges at whim from the...
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