Popular Writing in America - Abridged Ed

This book came great in helping me pass my class! Price for this book was awsome.

You won't find another anthology that packs so many classic essays and stories (EB White, Stephen Crane, John Updike) with quality journalism and parts of popular novels (Tarzan, Godfather). The issue areas are still relevant--lyrics in popular music, violence in youth, sexism, persuasion in advertisements, popular hysteria (War of the Worlds in 1930s). But there's a disappointment too: the book has not been revised since 1993. So there's nothing on Columbine, the Twin Towers, recent rock group, terrorism, and display ads that young readers might recognize. It's a shame that the editors have moved on to other projects and another publisher, and that Oxford has not been able (or willing?) to update some of the issue areas. So four, not five stars.