Some of the essays in this collection were originally published in the following periodicals: ‘47, Hotchkiss Alumni Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and an article on American education from The Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters: Commemorative tribute to Erskine Caldwell, published in the Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Second Series, Number 38, December 4, 1987. Reprinted by permission.
The Curtis Publishing Co.: “A Life for a Vote” by John Hersey, published in The Saturday Evening Post (September 26, 1964). Reprinted by permission from The Saturday Evening Post, copyright © 1964 by The Curtis Publishing Co.
John Hersey: “Introduction” by John Hersey to the new edition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1988, and originally, in a different version, as “Agee,” in The New Yorker, July 18, 1988. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: “Alfred A. Knopf’s Love Affair” by John Hersey from Alfred A. Knopf at 60. Copyright 1952 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Reprinted by permission.
Life magazine: “Prisoner 339, Klooga” by John Hersey, published in Life magazine (October 30, 1944). Copyright 1944, © 1972 by Time Inc. Reprinted by permission of Life magazine.