Twenty-Five Books That Shaped America

<p><strong>From the author of the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling <em>How to Read Literature Like a Professor</em> comes a highly entertaining and informative book on the twenty-five works of literature that have most shaped the American character. </strong></p><p>Thomas C. Foster applies his much-loved combination of wit know-how and analysis to explain how each work has shaped our very existence as readers students teachers and Americans. He illuminates how books such as <em>The Last of the Mohicans</em> <em>Moby-Dick</em> <em>My Ántonia</em> <em>The Great Gatsby</em> <em>The Maltese Falcon</em> <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em> <em>On the Road</em> <em>The Crying of Lot 49</em> and others captured an American moment how they influenced our perception of nationhood and citizenship and what about them endures in the American character. <em>Twenty-five Books That Shaped America</em> is a fun and enriching guide to America through its literature.</p>