{"product_id":"the-american-earthquake-9780374515072","title":"The American Earthquake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Earthquake\u003c\/i\u003e amply conveys the astonishing breadth of Edmund Wilson's talent, provides an unparalleled vision of one of the most troubling periods in American history, and, perhaps inadvertently, offers a self-portrait comparable to \u003ci\u003eThe Education of Henry Adams\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e During a twelve-month period in 1930 and 1931, Edmund Wilson wrote a series of lengthy articles which he then collected in a book called \u003ci\u003eAmerican Jitters: A Year of the Slump\u003c\/i\u003e. The resulting chronicle was hailed by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as \"the best reporting that the period of depression has brought forth in the United States,\" and forms the heart of the present volume. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn prose that is by turns dramatic and naturalistic, inflammatory and evocative, satirical and droll, Wilson painted an unforgettable portrait of a time when \"the whole structure of American society seemed actually to be going to pieces.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Earthquake\u003c\/i\u003e bookends this chronicle with a collection of Wilson's non-literary articles-including criticism, reportage, and some fiction-from the years of \"The Follies,\" 1923-1928, and the dawn of the New Deal, 1932-1934. During this period, Wilson had grown from a little-known journalist to one of the most important American literary and social critics of the century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmund Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. His more than twenty books include \u003ci\u003eAxel's Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePatriotic Gor\u003c\/i\u003ee, \u003ci\u003eTo the Finland Station\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Hecate County.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323771654418,"sku":"9780374515072","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f4db76f-8c1b-41b0-a0aa-94e88887c458.jpg?v=1727661227","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-american-earthquake-9780374515072","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}