The Bitch-Goddess Success

Variations on an American Theme

This powerful compilation of writings indicates the continuity of “our national disease,” especially as it infects cultural values and the arts. Acutely aware of the failures of American society, the authors defend personal sensibility against destructive forces. Selected writings by Alexis de Tocqueville, Washington Allston, Henry Thoreau, Walt Whitman, William James, Louis H. Sullivan, Charles Ives, Vachel Lindsay, Maxwell E. Perkins, W. H. Auden, John F. Kennedy and George F. Kennan.

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