The American Essay in the American Century

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247 Index Adams, Bristow, 140 Adams, Franklin Pierce (“F. P. A.”), 2, 102, 110–11, 117, 120–22, 129, 141–42, 146, 149 Adams, Frederick “Grizzly,” 108 Adams, Henry, 78 Addams, Jane, 2, 78–79 Addison, Joseph, 25, 27, 48, 112, 115 Ade, George, 91, 108–10, 121, Adorno, Theodor, xi African American essay, 9, 74–78 African Americans, x, 45, 55, 109, 120, 184 Agee, James, 74, 156 Ahearn, Ed, xii Alcott, Bronson, 19–20, 22 Alcott, Louisa May, 179 Aldrich, Marcia, xiii Algonquin Round Table, 3, 10, 94, 108, 122–23, 129, 165–66, 182 Allen, Gracie, 152 Altmaier, Catherine, xii Altman, Janet, xii American Boy, 140 American Century, 7–8, 182, 202n18 American First Committee. See Isolationism American Magazine, 73, 109, 188 Anderson, Sherwood, 107 Angell, Katharine Sergeant. See White, Katharine Angell, Roger, 170 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 75 Anthologies, 8–10, 22, 69–70, 85–86, 113, 134, 160, 194–200 Arnold, Matthew, 15, 26, 113, 116, 160 Ashton, Susanna, xii, 211n88 Atlantic Monthly, 15, 34, 38–39, 47, 49–51, 54, 73–74, 79, 89, 104, 132, 158 Atwan, Robert, xiii, 6, 9, 20, 23, 196 Bacon, Sir Francis, 6, 9, 22, 63, 80 Baker, Ray Stannard, 73, 78, 188. See also Grayson, David Baldwin, James, ix, xi, 6 “Band, The,” 15 Barthes, Roland, 69 Bartkevicius, Jocelyn, xiii Barton, Bruce, 149 Bate, Charles Austin, 38 Beard, Charles, 190 Beck, Warren, 192 Beecher, Catharine, 31, 55 Beecher, Henry Ward, 50, 55, 62, 64, 140 Beerbohm, Max, 59–60, 118–19, 159 Bell, Vanessa, 60–61 Belloc, Hilaire, 9 Benchley, Edmund, 120 Benchley, Robert, 3, 110, 116, 120–23, 130, 142, 164, 169, 172 Benét, Stephen Vincent, 142, 187 Benét, William Rose, 124, 223n54 Benjamin, Fannie Nichols, 38 Benjamin, Walter, 26, 35 248 Index Benson, Sally, 198–99 Berry, Ralph, xiii Bickley, R. Bruce, xii, 26, 205n35 Bierce, Ambrose, 107 Bishop, Jim, ix Bishop, Wendy, xii, 201n12 Bizzell, Patricia, 68 Blair, Hugh, 68 Blair, Walter, 19, 218n57 Blitzstein, Marc, 167 Bloom, Lynn Z., xiv, 9, 68, 193–94, 196 Blumin, Stuart, 10, 202n23, 216n6 Bly, Carol, x Bok, Edward, 46–47, 50, 61–63, 78, 83, 123 Bookman, 9, 38, 106, 112 Book-of-the-Month Club, ix, xi, 8, 62, 93, 94, 100, 118, 124–25, 131, 143–45, 160 Bourdieu, Pierre, 5–6, 133 Bourke-White, Margaret, 156 Bourne, Randolph, 2, 78–79, 104–6, 112 Boynton, H. W., 81 Boz. See Dickens, Charles Bradley, William, xii Brady, Maura, xii Brahmins, 2, 15, 78, 111 Brecht, Bertolt, 185 Brennan, Francis, 186 Breton, André, 185 Brooklyn Eagle, 46 Broun, Heywood, 2, 8, 12, 94, 102, 116, 118–20, 124, 129, 131, 135–36, 142, 145, 149, 155, 172 Brown, Charles Brockden, 24–25 Brown, John, 77 Brown, Spencer, 192 Buell, Lawrence, 19 Bulosan, Carlos, 187 Bungalow, 3, 10, 58, 61, 64, 149, 209n20 Burke, Billie, 121 Burke, Kenneth, 132 Burns, George, 152 Burroway, Janet, xii Burton, Richard, 39, 42, 85–86 Butcher, Harry M., 151 Butler, Robert Olen, xii Cabot, James Eliot, 22 Campbell, George, 68 Canby, Henry Seidel, 9, 58, 71, 73, 100, 102–4, 112–14, 117–19, 124–30, 133, 147, 157, 159–61, 189, 219n62 Canon: essay, 9, 68, 82, 193–200 Carlyle, Thomas, 20, 22, 46, 75, 116 Carnegie, Dale, 11 Carson, Rachel, 12 Cather, Willa, 146 Cerf, Bennett, 126 Chamberlain, Neville, 173 Chapman, John Jay, 2, 78–80 Character, 7, 11, 59, 64, 165, 203n30 “Characters,” 26–27 Chase, Stuart, 154 Chevalier, Tracy, xiv Chicago Tribune, 109, 172 Churchill, Winston, 152 Chute, Marchette, ix CIO. See Congress of Industrial Organizations Clark, Clifford, 54 Clark, Joe, xiii Clarke, H. A., 43 Clinton, Hillary, 191–92 Colby, F. M., 40, 112, 120 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 68 College Humor, 130 Collier’s, 14, 73, 109, 130 Columbia University, ix, 82, 105, 114, 120, 124 Column, 2–3, 5, 12, 29, 41, 124, 151, 152, 203n28, 207n23, 213n33. See also Colyumn Columnist, 31, 32, 113–15; Adams, Franklin Pierce as, 110, 117, 122; Ade, George as, 108–10; Benchley, Robert as, 120–23; Broun, Heywood as, 94, 118–20, 135–37, 145; Curtis, George William as, 29; Dunne, Finley Peter as, 108–9, 146; Fern, Fanny as, 31–33, 88; Howells, William Dean as, 51–52; Lee, Gerard Stanley as, 71; Mabie, Hamilton Wright as, 62; Marquis, Don as, 117–18; Mitchell, Donald Grant as, 29; Morley, Christopher as, 93, 118–20, 133; Roosevelt, Eleanor as...