On Native Grounds An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature

"To understand what a colossal achievement Alfred's life was, one has only to remember that in 1942, when he was still in his 20's--and the Brooklyn-born son of uneducated Yiddish-speaking immigrants--he wrote 'On Native Grounds,' a brilliant re-interpretation of American literature from William Dean Howells to William Faulkner, a book of literary criticism which read like a passionate communication intended for intelligent, living human beings rather than like a 1940's academic exercise or a 1930's political tract."Kazin, Alfred is the author of 'On Native Grounds An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature' with ISBN 9780156687508 and ISBN 015668750X.