Modern Classics It All Adds Up — Saul Bellow

Bellow was americas writer, and in this superb collection of nonfiction essays he demonstated his vigilance of and loyalty to his country over a span of 45 years from his earliest piece, a war report from spain written for the partisan review (1948), to his novel prize lecture (1976), to a forbes article entitled there is simply too much to think about, bellow was consumed by the idea of america--so great, so accomplished, so magical--destroying its soul