The Riverside Reader (002)
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Great for homeschooling or college resource. Included: Garrison Keillor (Drowning 1954), Maya Angelou (My Name is Margaret), Richard Rodriguez (Aria), Susan Sontag (Beauty),Paul Theroux (Soccer in San Salvador), George Orwell (Shooting an Elephant), Eudora Welty (The Little Store), Alice Walker (Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self), Daniel Boorstin (Overcommunication: Are We Talking Too Much?)),Alan Moorehead (A Most Forgiving Ape),Deems Taylor (A Monster), Annie Dillard (In the Jungle), Norman Cousins (Pain is Not the Ultimate Enemy),Tom Wolfe (Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't Hear You! Too Noisy) Las Vegas), Russell Baker (Slice of Life), Ernest Hemingway (When You Camp Out Do It Right), Henry Grunwald (Home is Where You Are Happy)),Gretel Ehrlich (Rules of the Game, Rodeo), Edward Hoagland (In the Toils of the Law), Joan Didion (On Keeping a Notebook), Calvin Trillin (Resettling the Yangs), Winston Churchill (Until Vicotry is Won), Bruce Catton (Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts), Noel Perrin (The Two Faces of Vermont), Robert Jastrow (Brains and Computers), Loren Eiseley (Obituary of a Bone Hunter), Stephen Jay Gould (Carrie Buck's Duaghter),Edward T. Hall (The Arab World), Gerald Weissman (The Chart of the Novel), Allison Lurie (American Regional Clothing), Frank Trippett (The Great American Cooling Machine),William Zinsser (College Pressures),Louis Kronenberger (Cranks, Eccentrics, and Individuals), William Golding (Thinking as a Hobby), Gloria Steinem (Why Young Women are More Conservative),Desmond Morris (Territorial Behaviour), Laurie Lee (Appetite), Veronica Geng (Quote Commitment Unquote), H.L. Mencken (The Penalty of Death), Anne Ehrich (The Rivet Poppers), Paul Ehrich (The Rivet Poppers),Brigid Brophy (The Rights of Animals), Virgina Woolf (Professions of Women), E.B. White (The Ring of Time), Patricia Hampl (Look at a Teecup), Jonathan Schell (The Effects of a Nuclear Explosion).