A More Goodly Country

<p>Beginning in A.D. 1000 with Leif Ericson and ending with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 John Sanford (1904-2003) recipient of the PEN Award and the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> Lifetime Achievement Award presents in poetic prose a searing personal history of the United States.</p><p><br></p><p>It was and it is an unrelenting and accusatory book. No one who values his country can find its charges easy to bear-and yet I value my country too and the book was written only to make it better.</p><p>- John Sanford in his preface to the 1982 Black Sparrow reissue of <em>A More Goodly Country</em></p>