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1961-1975:
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O Pioneers!
Black Elk Speaks
Up From Slavery
The Souls of Black Folk
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Henry Adams
Age of Innocence
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The Jungle
The Winning of
the West
Sister Carrie
The Cowboy Philosopher
on Prohibition
The American Language
Montage of a Dream
Deferred
Their Eyes
Were Watching God
The Sun Also Rises
The Great Gatsby
1929-1945:
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The Sound and
the Fury
The Fountainhead
Public Opinion
Here is Your War
1945-1961:
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1961-1975:
Another Country
The Feminine Mystique
The Conservative Mind
God and Man at Yale
The Best and
the Brightest
A Bright Shining Lie
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August 6, 2001
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
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August 13, 2001
Theodore Roosevelt
The Winning of the West
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August 20, 2001
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
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September 10, 2001
Will Rogers
Roger-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition
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March 31, 2002
Langston Hughes
Montage of a Dream Deferred
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March 31, 2002
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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April 7, 2002
H.L. Mencken
The American Language
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April 14, 2002
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
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April 21, 2002
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
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