Record details

• ISBN: 1400061121
• ISBN: 9781400061129
• Physical Description: xxv, 288 pages ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st edition
• Publisher: New York : Random House, [2004]
• Copyright: ©2004

Content descriptions

General Note:

"All the essays that appear in this work were originally published in Newsweek"--Back of title page.

Formatted Contents Note:

Good-bye Dr. Spock -- Our tired, our poor, our kids -- Doing nothing is something -- No privilege for parents -- In search of a grown-up -- Playing God on no sleep -- Playing perfect patty-cake -- Mom Quixote -- Now it's time for generation next -- Daughter of the groom -- Fall from the nest -- The C word in the hallways -- School's out for summer -- A new roof on an old house -- A quilt of a country -- Staring across a great divide -- The widows and the wounded -- Welcome to Animal House -- The drug that pretends it isn't -- The problem of the color line -- A conspiracy of notebooks -- Happy leader, happy nation -- It's the cult of personality -- The sins of the fathers -- Lead us not -- The right to be ordinary -- The power of one -- Smoke gets in your eyes -- 17 going on 18 -- The call from the governor -- Indivisible? Wanna bet? -- The sounds of silence -- The reasonable woman standard -- Barbie at 35 -- Say farewell to pin curls -- Our radical, ourselves -- An era ends -- And now for a hot flash -- Sexual assault, film at eleven -- And now, babe feminism -- Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha -- The lone pilgrim -- Say good-bye to the virago -- Not a womb in the house -- The key to success -- The story of us -- Off with their ties -- Oh, Godot -- Life after death -- Anniversary -- Leg waxing and life everlasting -- Watching the world go by -- Aha! Caught you reading -- With a no. 2 pencil, delete -- Poetry emotion -- In memoriam : our real pip -- Imagining the Hansons -- Everything is under control -- Honestly. you shouldn't have -- Armed with only a neutral lipstick -- Weren't we all so young then? -- Look at what they've done -- One day, now broken in two -- We are here for Andrea -- Every day, angels.

Study Program Information Note:

Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.6 14 78189.

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American essays.