“…one of the trailblazers in American literature”— The New York Times
“Loren Eiseley’s work changed my life.” —Ray Bradbury
“He came to know the American landscape better than many natives….” — The Wall Street Journal
“[T}aken as a whole, the sermon form is revealed to have remarkable literary vitality. Influenced by the Bible, tinged by African and evangelical cadences, the sermons constitute a very American idiom. One can read these as historical…
“Also, we realize, James possessed a point of view tailor-made for the vocation of literary criticism. The critic’s life, he wrote in one essay, ‘is heroic, for it is immensely vicarious. He has to understand for…
“France and England in North America is the greatest history ever written by an American, even counting Henry Adams. A thousand years from now, if there are still Americans, Parkman will be their Homer.” — The Washington…
A neglected classic offers an unflinching depiction of the physical and psychological cost of modern warfare.