The American Mercury made its first appearance in January 1924. This volume, containing a variety of distinguished articles, stories, sketches, poems and cartoons, forms a literary treasure trove of the years between 1924-1944. It will give an idea of the character and wide scope of the magazine and explain the influential and respected place it had won in American periodical journalism.
It was no easy task to make selections for more than two thousand pieces printed on more than thirty thousand pages. You will find something from every period in the magazine's life and something from as many fields as possible in The American Mercury Reader.
The Man Who Knew Coolidge
Sinclair Lewis "Tom Paine"
William E. Dodd "Boy Baby" (A Poem)
Carl Sandburg "He's Taken her Back Again" (A Poem)
Gwendolen Haste "One Night at Coney" (A Story)
Robert M. Coates "All God's Chillum Got Wings" (A Play)
Eugene O'Neill "William Jennings Bryan"
H.L. Mencken "That Evening Sun go Down" (A Story)
William Faulkner "Crazy Sunday" (A Story)
F. Scott Fitzgerald "A Leaf-Treader" (A Poem)
Robert Frost
...and many more!