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Meditations on America (Hardcover)
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This work explores John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series, with
special emphasis on MacDonald's examination of the conflicts and
joys of twentieth-century American culture and society. MacDonald
describes himself as a moralist and this, combined with his
narrative gifts, infuses his ever-present concerns for the quality
and durability of American life. The first and last chapters,
respectively, discuss MacDonald's early novels and the four he
wrote concurrently with the series. The remaining chapters analyze
various themes that figure prominently in the series. MacDonald's
thinking reflects many of the concerns of his fellow citizens
during his writing career while revealing his own personal reaction
to the society around him. Noting his sense of an uncaused evil in
the world and his prolific inventiveness, this work examines
MacDonald's narrative exploration of America in which he reveals an
unwillingness to give up either his frequently pessimistic views of
society or the hope that it can somehow continue. His posthumous
Reading for Survival sounds the latter note in typical MacDonald
fashion: Read and learn or die. McGee, in the hard-boiled detective
tradition, exemplifies MacDonald's picture of the struggling, but
coping, culture with no guarantees for the future.
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