Contents

Introduction

Paul Cowan’s The Tribes of America

Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year

James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Paul Gallico’s Farewell to Sport

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

Walter Bernstein’s Keep Your Head Down

A. J. Liebling’s The Earl of Louisiana

Stanley Booth’s The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Palagummi Sainath’s Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts

Charles Raw, Bruce Page, & Godfrey Hodgson’s DO YOu Sincerely Want to Be Rich?

Michael Herr’s Dispatches

Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day

John McPhee’s Annals of the Former World

Marshall Frady’s Wallace

Rian Malan’s My Traitor’s Heart

Vincent Sheean’s Personal History

Norman Mailer’s THE Armies of the Night

William Manchester’s The Death of a President

Gabriel García Márquez’s The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Peter Fleming’s Brazilian Adventure

Betty MacDonald’s Anybody Can Do Anything

Contributors