What? You disagree with my opinion, Jack?? Oh, fie!!! LOL

Perhaps I should expand on it--there are a very large number of different facets to the American experience. There are books that touch on all of them, but some are less famous than others. "On the Road" must qualify as well as "Howl", alongside of the industrial exposes of Frank Norris, for example. Many of these aspects are captured in songs but not so well in books--"Buffalo Skinners", "Old Man River", "High-Chin Bob" and others come to mind.

Would the fictional westerns of Louis L'Amour, or the Golden Age of Sci Fi from Heinlein or Asimov, qualify? I would think they certainly capture a portion of the American heart. Ray Bradbury certainly does.
The American experience is a choir of tenthousand voices, some squawkier than others, to be sure, but voices nonethe less.


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