These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State Within the Union

In 1922, The Nation launched a series of forty-nine articles by a distinguished group of writers — novelists, journalists, educators, social workers, lawyers, unionists, and maverick intellectuals — each of whom was asked to contemplate his or her state of the union. Their essays were collected and published in a volume: These United States: Portrait of America from the 1920s. In 2002 Nation Books set out to create a contemporary portrait of America with the critic John Leonard as editor. E...