Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected EssaysFourty-four essays on literature, politicking in government and in literary circles, and such celebrated contemporary characters as Norman Mailer, Dr. David Reuben, and Susan Sontag by the man Alfred Kazin has called "one of the best-informed and most biting polemicists of our overgrown American way of life." |
Contents
VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET | |
LOVE LOVE LOVE | |
BERNARD SHAWS HEARTBREAK HOUSE | |
NORMAN MAILERS SELFADVERTISEMENTS | |
PRESIDENT KENNEDY | |
A CHAT | |
POLICE BRUTALITY | |
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