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[Pt.]1 Thesis; the argumentative edge : How should one read a book? / Virginia Woolf
A primer of existentialism / Gordon E. Bigelow.
[Pt.]2 Structure; middle tactics : The war against the young : its beginnings / Richard Poirier
The student drive to destruction / Louis J. Halle
A federal judge digs the young / Charles E. Wyzanski Jr.
The war against the democractic process / Sidney Hook.
[Pt.]3 Middle tactics; the vector of interest : Man against darkness / W.T. Stace
Man out of darkness : religion has not lost its power / Theodore M. Greene
Celebrating with Dr. Leary / Diana Trilling
The mystic's experience of God / Rufus M. Jones
Plato and Bacon / Thomas Babington Macaulay.
[Pt.]4 Paragraphs; beginning, middle, end : Language and literature / Edward Sapir
Cervantes / George Santayana
Nirvana now / Daniel P. Moynihan.
[Pt.]5 Sentences; a notebook of styles : The simple sentence : from The true believer / Eric Hoffer ; from Triple-threat man / Wolcott Gibbs
Coordination : from The beautiful flower / Joseph Mitchell ; Better writing / Henry M. Silver
Subordination : from Death in the afternoon / Ernest Hemingway ; from Henry James : symbolic imagery in the later novels / Austin Warren
Parallels and periodic prose : Of studies / Francis Bacon ; from Liberal knowledge / John Henry Newman ; from A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce
The long and short : from Point counter point / Aldous Huxley ; from Epilogue to pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw.
[Pt.]6 Sentences in exposition : The evolution of ethics / Albert Schweitzer
The real secret of piltdown / Loren Eisley
Science and savages / G.K. Chesterton
Sentence maker / Henry Seidel Canby.
[Pt.]7 Words; the figurative dimension : Where I lived, and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau
A slight sound at evening / E.B. White
The importance of Nietzsche / Erich Heller.
[Pt.]8 The autobiographical essay : Shooting an elephant / George Orwell
Fifth Avenue Uptown : a letter from Harlem / James Baldwin.
[Pt.]9 The horrors of exposition; too much or too little : An experimental investigation / Lois Z. Smith
Get-out-if-you-can! / American Traditions Project.
[Pt.]10 The ironic essay : A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift
Coleridge / Thomas Carlyle
After the population explosion / Harrison Brown.
[Pt.]11 The critical review : 8 1/2 : Fellini's obvious masterpiece / Dwight Macdonald
The underground man / Eudora Welty
The cubist epoch / Harold Rosenberg.
[Pt.]12 Evidence and the author's voice : Murder trial in Moscow / Jeremy R. Azrael
What is wrong with the city? / Norman Mailer
Democracy and anti-intellectualism in America / Richard Hofstadter
Blueprint for a silver age / Cyril Connolly
The challenge of fear / Alan Paton.
A primer of existentialism / Gordon E. Bigelow.
[Pt.]2 Structure; middle tactics : The war against the young : its beginnings / Richard Poirier
The student drive to destruction / Louis J. Halle
A federal judge digs the young / Charles E. Wyzanski Jr.
The war against the democractic process / Sidney Hook.
[Pt.]3 Middle tactics; the vector of interest : Man against darkness / W.T. Stace
Man out of darkness : religion has not lost its power / Theodore M. Greene
Celebrating with Dr. Leary / Diana Trilling
The mystic's experience of God / Rufus M. Jones
Plato and Bacon / Thomas Babington Macaulay.
[Pt.]4 Paragraphs; beginning, middle, end : Language and literature / Edward Sapir
Cervantes / George Santayana
Nirvana now / Daniel P. Moynihan.
[Pt.]5 Sentences; a notebook of styles : The simple sentence : from The true believer / Eric Hoffer ; from Triple-threat man / Wolcott Gibbs
Coordination : from The beautiful flower / Joseph Mitchell ; Better writing / Henry M. Silver
Subordination : from Death in the afternoon / Ernest Hemingway ; from Henry James : symbolic imagery in the later novels / Austin Warren
Parallels and periodic prose : Of studies / Francis Bacon ; from Liberal knowledge / John Henry Newman ; from A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce
The long and short : from Point counter point / Aldous Huxley ; from Epilogue to pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw.
[Pt.]6 Sentences in exposition : The evolution of ethics / Albert Schweitzer
The real secret of piltdown / Loren Eisley
Science and savages / G.K. Chesterton
Sentence maker / Henry Seidel Canby.
[Pt.]7 Words; the figurative dimension : Where I lived, and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau
A slight sound at evening / E.B. White
The importance of Nietzsche / Erich Heller.
[Pt.]8 The autobiographical essay : Shooting an elephant / George Orwell
Fifth Avenue Uptown : a letter from Harlem / James Baldwin.
[Pt.]9 The horrors of exposition; too much or too little : An experimental investigation / Lois Z. Smith
Get-out-if-you-can! / American Traditions Project.
[Pt.]10 The ironic essay : A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift
Coleridge / Thomas Carlyle
After the population explosion / Harrison Brown.
[Pt.]11 The critical review : 8 1/2 : Fellini's obvious masterpiece / Dwight Macdonald
The underground man / Eudora Welty
The cubist epoch / Harold Rosenberg.
[Pt.]12 Evidence and the author's voice : Murder trial in Moscow / Jeremy R. Azrael
What is wrong with the city? / Norman Mailer
Democracy and anti-intellectualism in America / Richard Hofstadter
Blueprint for a silver age / Cyril Connolly
The challenge of fear / Alan Paton.