This book is a collage of America intended to remind us that we have responsibilities as well as opportunities as Americans. The author has included selections for all ages, including songs and poems that appeal to chldren, speeches that helped turn the tide of history, judicial opinions, and images that capture an expression of personal yet universal truths.
Contains interviews conducted with sixteen authors between 1953 and 2006, drawn from the pages of "The Paris Review," including conversations with Graham Greene, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, and others.
