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History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays

A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long introduction by his friend and colleague Van Wyck Brooks. Includes the influential and perennially relevant essay "Trans-National America" as well as a fragment from the autobiographical novel on which Bourne was working at the time of his death. - Summary by Ben Adams (8 hr 13 min)

Chapters

Introduction

History of a Literary Radical

Our Cultural Humility

Six Portraits, part 1

Six Portraits, part 2

This Older Generation

A Mirror of the Middle West

Ernest: or a Parent for a Day

On Discussion

The Puritan's Will to Power

The Immanence of Dostoevsky

The Art of Theodore Dreister

The Uses of Infallibility

Impressions of Europe

Trans-National America

Fragment of a Novel