A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long introduction by his friend and colleague Van Wyck Brooks. Includes the influential and perennially relevant essay "Trans-National America" as well as a fragment from the autobiographical novel on which Bourne was working at the time of his death. - Summary by Ben Adams
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Introduction
38:29 - Chapter 2
History of a Literary Radical
39:38 - Chapter 3
Our Cultural Humility
17:14 - Chapter 4
Six Portraits, part 1
43:44 - Chapter 5
Six Portraits, part 2
31:11 - Chapter 6
This Older Generation
26:31 - Chapter 7
A Mirror of the Middle West
15:00 - Chapter 8
Ernest: or a Parent for a Day
43:16 - Chapter 9
On Discussion
10:46 - Chapter 10
The Puritan's Will to Power
18:24 - Chapter 11
The Immanence of Dostoevsky
08:46 - Chapter 12
The Art of Theodore Dreister
16:10 - Chapter 13
The Uses of Infallibility
30:04 - Chapter 14
Impressions of Europe
54:25 - Chapter 15
Trans-National America
47:27 - Chapter 16
Fragment of a Novel
52:05