In such modern classics as Chesapeake, Centennial, Hawaii,
Alaska, and Texas, James A. Michener proved time and
again that his understanding of and love for his country was
unparalleled. This Noble Land is Michener’s most
personal statement about America, an examination of the issues that
threaten to fragment and undermine the nation—racial
conflict, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the decline of
education, the inadequacies of our health care system—as well
as a thought-provoking prescription for sustaining our
“outstanding success.
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the
battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of
the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him.
But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz
starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war
close to home, and to his own heart.
In his bravura account of Warhol's life and work, scholar and
culture critic Wayne Koestenbaum gets past the contradictions and
reveals the man behind the blond wig and dark glasses. Nimbly
weaving brilliant and witty analysis into an absorbing narrative,
Koestenbaum makes a convincing case for Warhol as a serious artist,
one whose importance goes beyond the sixties.
