Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America is a book by Jay Parini.
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America
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Jay Parini
Jay Parini (born 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels and poetry, biography and criticism.
He was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and brought up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1970. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of St....
Subjects:
- Culture of the United States
- Of Plymouth Plantation
- The Federalist Papers
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The Journals of Lewis and Clark
- Walden
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Souls of Black Folk
- The Promised Land
