The Twilight of Self Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America

by Wallace Stegner

2021-01-01 16:27:22

We can refresh ourselves with our own best image, and renew our image of America: not as Perfection, not as Heaven on Earth, not as New Jerusalem, but as flawed glory and exhilarating task.'' –-from The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Value... Read more
We can refresh ourselves with our own best image, and renew our image of America: not as Perfection, not as Heaven on Earth, not as New Jerusalem, but as flawed glory and exhilarating task.'' –-from The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America
The occasions of the centennial of Wallace Stegner’s birth on February 18, 1909, and the University of Utah Press’s announcement of the Wallace Stegner Publication Prize in Environmental and American Western History have provided the impetus for the re-publication of ''The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America,'' which was originally delivered as a Tanner Lecture at the University of Utah on February 25, 1980.
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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.3 in
Print pages32
PublisherUniversity of Utah Press
Publication date October 31, 2008
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780874809527
Wallace Earle Stegner (Feb 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer P...

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