American Childhoods
Subtitle: An Anthology
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T); Little, Brown
Published: June 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780316555449
Subjects: Reference; Sociology Of Children; Biography / Autobiography; Biography; Children; United States; Biography/Autobiography
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.