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  • The Jazz Age: Essays

    F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. L. Doctorow

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    A short collection of essays about the Jazz Age by the writer who epitomized it, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

  • Karmic Traces: Essays

    Eliot Weinberger

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    For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into...

  • Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture

    John F. Thornton, Katharine Washburn, John Simon

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    Passionate observers across the political/intellectual spectrum confront the downward spiral of American life, art, and thought.

  • Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations

    Paul Krugman

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    Newsweek hailed Paul Krugman as "a superstar among economists" and went on to praise Peddling Prosperity as "the best primer around on recent U.S. economic history." Others joined the chorus.

  • Zen and the Birds of Appetite

    Thomas Merton

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    Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners.