Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers Sports_Gift_Guide capture Rilke's spirit as no

capture Rilke's spirit as no one has done before

politics -- remain with us in new forms

one of the children

The "heartwarming" story of how an army of librarians and publishers lifted spirits and built a new democratic audience of readers is as inspiring today as it was then (New York Times)

Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers Sports_Gift_Guide capture Rilke's spirit as noA deeply considered and provocative new look at major American writersincluding Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and W. H. AudenEdward Mendelsons Moral Agents is also a work of critical biography in the great tradition of Plutarch, Samuel Johnson, and Emerson. Any important writer, in Mendelsons view, writes in response to an idea of the good life that is inseparable from the life the writer lives. Fusing biography and criticism and based on extensive new