Review of Books I Have Reviewed 02

Continuing a review of books I have already reviewed with a brief statement of what I found interesting in them (02).

The American Seasons. Edwin Way Teale. 1950. The changing seasons throughout the United States.

Anthem. Ayn Rand. 1946. Novel. Favors the individual "I" over the collective "We."

The Art of Teaching. Gilbert Highet. 1955. The basics of teaching--at any level.

As I Lay Dying. William Faulkner. 1930. Novel. The funeral trip from Hell but the situation is outrageously funny--to the reader, not the participants.

Ask Not (JFK's Inauguration speech). Thurston Clarke. 2004. The origins, contributions to, political backstabbing and delivery of Kennedy's Inauguration Address.

Autobiography of Mark Twain. Ed. Charles Neider. 1919. Published after Twain's death, so he speaks from the grave without fear of criticism.

Babbitt. Sinclair Lewis. 1922. Novel. Middle-aged Babbitt has his individuality sucked out of him by middle-class society.

Best American Essays of the Century. Eds. Oates and atwan. 2000. Essays [20th century] that are mostly provocative. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in 1963 is memorable as are many others. Not to be missed.

The Best and the Brightest. David Halberstam. 1972. The tragedy of Vietnam occurred because of the differences in leadership style between LBJ and JFK.

The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch. 1970. "Nothing the lesser creatures can teach us is more worth learning than the lesson of gladness."

Bill Campbell: Voice of Philadelphia Sports. Sam Carchidi. 2006. The voice of University of Pennsylvania football, Wilt Chamberlain's hundred-point game, the Philadelphia Eagles' championship football game vs. the Green Bay Packers in 1960 and the collapse of the 1964 Phillies.

The Blithedale Romance. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1852. Fiction. Critics might not like my interpretation, but I think this romance is a novel of feminism.