Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

Jack London and His Call of the Wild

Theodore Dreiser: Book One and Book Two

Ernest Hemingway, R.I.P.

Orwell’s 1984

Ronald Reagan

Commencement

The Character of Presidents

The Beliefs of Writers

A Citizen Reads the Constitution

The Nineteenth New York

False Documents

Standards

James Wright at Kenyon

Two Waldens

Notes

Acknowledgments

Other Books by this Author

About The Author