The man's story. The hand / Theodore Dreiser --
The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway --
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck --
The days of the giants / Henry Mencken --
My remarkable uncle / Stephen Leacock --
Strange moonlight / Conrad Aiken --
Two fisherman / Morley Callaghan --
The joy of single blessedness / George Ade --
The American dream. America was promises / Archibald MacLeish --
Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather --
Dinner with the Babbitts / Sinclair Lewis --
The American dream / James Truslow Adams --
America's mythology / Mark Van Doren --
Mark Twain: the artist as American / Bernard De Voto --
The standard of living / Dorothy Parker --
The customer is always wrong / Wolcott Gibbs --
A goodly heritage. The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet --
Hawthorne in Salem / Van Wyck Brooks --
The Lord's Day in the nineties / Mary Ellen Chase --
Sixteen poems / Robert Frost --
Central Park / Robert Nathan --
Maine is a perpetual poem / Robert Tristram Coffin --
The night on the cobble / Dorothy Canfield Fisher --
The old stone house / Edmund Wilson --
Country full of Swedes / Erskine Caldwell.
Home in the nineties / Henry Seidel Canby --
Last days of Bostonian / John P. Marquand --
The deep past / Ellen Glasgow --
Hyacinth drift / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings --
Another April / Jesse Stuart --
Lutie / Conrad Richter --
Mary White / William Allen White --
The jungle. The slaughter of the pigs / Upton Sinclair --
How "bigger" was born / Richard Wright --
The adding machine / Elmer Rice --
Quo Vadimus? / E.B. White --
Girl on the road / Louis Adamic --
Poems of American negro life / Langston Hughes --
Mio and Miriamne / Maxwell Anderson --
That evening sun go down / William Faulkner --
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter --
Escape to the proletariat / John Dos Passos --
The Jukes family / Frank Sullivan --
Bridewater's half dollar / Booth Tarkington --
The dust which is God. Fifteen sonnets / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
The dust which is God / William Rose Benet --
Three poems / Louis Untermeyer --
A song for Eros / Christopher Morley --
Dedications in acrostics / (James) Branch Cabell --
Tamar dancing / Robinson Jeffers --
Some flower studies / William Carlos Williams --
What are years? / Marianne Moore.
Song from "Mediterranean" / Muriel Rukeyser --
Domination of black / Wallace Stevens --
The masters. Horace / Agnes Repplier --
Tomorrow is my birthday / Edgar Lee Masters --
Swift and Vanessa / Carl Van Doren --
Beethoven / Hendrik Willem Van Loon --
The second part of "Don Quixote" / Joseph Wood Krutch --
The drama. Aesthetic jurisprudence / George Jean Nathan --
The great god Brown / Eugene O'Neill --
The election of Lincoln / Robert E. Sherwood --
Mei Lan-Fang / Stark Young --
The happy journey to Trenton and Camden / Thornton Wilder --
A preface / William Saroyan --
Rocket to the moon / Clifford Odets --
Speech from a play / E.E. Cummings --
Kitchen bouquet. "Speaking of operations" / Irvin Cobb --
The body beautiful / Cornelia Otis Skinner --
The treasurer's report / Robert Benchley --
Two and one are a problem / Ogden Nash --
Kitchen bouquet / S.J. Perelman --
The night the ghost got in / James Thurber --
Sacre du printemps / Ludwig Bemelmans --
They weren't going to die. M. Platon / Irwin Edman --
The street of Our Lady / Pierre Van Paassen --
The rains came / Louis Bromfield --
The old demon / Pearl Buck.
The outbreak of international gangsterism / John Gunther --
The thirteen bus / Vincent Sheean --
The little war / Lillian Hellman --
No room at the inn / Edna Ferber --
They weren't going to die / Kay Boyle --
Hitler at Compiègne / William L. Shirer --
The realm of being. In defence of history / Allan Nevins --
The people's death-fight / Paul de Kruif --
The economy of abundance / Stuart Chase --
The hours / Donald Culross Peattie --
From an old house / Joseph Hergesheimer --
Democracy and America / John Dewey --
... The people, yes / Carl Sandburg.
