American Childhoods
An Anthology
1st ed edition
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Word Count
101,250 words, Guess
Page Count
405 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10427800M
- ISBN-139780316555449
- ISBN-100316555444
- OCLC Control Number14932541
- OCLC Control Numberamericanchildhoo0000unse
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number86027472
- LibraryThing7925680
- Goodreads448545
Classifications
- LCCCT215 .A665 1987
Description
Excerpts frrom the autobiographical writings of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams,John McCullough, Davy Crockett, Lucy Larcom, Andrew Taylor Still, U. S. Grant, James L. Smith, Joanna Draper, Mark Twain, Charlotte L. Forten, Henry Adams, Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), Black Elk, Pierrepont Noyes, Lincoln Steffens, Edith Wharton, H. L. Mencken, William Alexander Percy, Mary Antin, Wanda Gag, Li Ling Ai, Sanora Babb, Alfred Kazin, Eudora Welty, William Jay Smith, Jean Fritz, Monica Sone, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Maya Angelo, N. Scott Momaday, Harry Crews. William Humphrey, Gloria Steinem, Richard Rodriguez, Joe Brainard, Frank Chin, Jim Carroll, Sheyann Webb and Rachel West Nelson.
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