Book Description: 1. Adolescence: self-definition and conflict / Edgar Z. Friedenberg --
The sealed treasure / Saul Bellow --
America and art / Louis Kronenberger --
The two cultures / C.P. Snow --
The illusion of the two cultures / Loren Eiseley --
2. Cape Cod / John Hay --
dtDialogues as recorded by Lucien Price / Alfred North Whitehead --
The patience of Shakespeare / Frank Kermode --
Why the novel matters / D.H. Lawrence --
Walt Whitman: he had his nerve / Randall Jarrell --
Huckleberry Finn / Lionel Trilling --
Moby-Dick / Alfred Kazin --
3. London / V.S. Pritchett --
The old stone house / Edmund Wilson --
A fresh appraisal of the Civil War / D.W. Brogan --
The irony of Southern history / C. Vann Woodward --
Dunkirk / Winston Churchill --
The dictator / Alan Bullock --
A young entomologist in old Russia / Vladimir Nabokov --
91 Revere Street / Robert Lowell --
Boston: the lost ideal / Elizabeth Hardwick --
4. If a slicker meet a slicker / S.J. Perelman --
Notes of a native son / James Baldwin --
Goodbye to all that / Robert Graves --
A hanging / George Orwell --
Comedy's greatest era / James Agee --
What I believe / E.M. Forster --
Beyond nihilism / Michael Polanyi.