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- Rebecca Mead looks at the first decade of the twenty-first century -- and why we never decided on a name for it.
- Chris Clarke offers tongue-in-cheek instructions for writing a blog post that will be sure to get a reaction.
- Bill McKibben calls for a return to frugality, to rescue the economy and the planet.
“My students enjoy reading and thinking about the selections in America Now because they spark spirited and productive discussions. Students often tell me that they read unassigned essays for pleasure.”— Samuel Maio, San Jose State University
“The excellent discussion of opinions and writing in America Now helps to create an atmosphere in which students are encouraged to value their own point of view and, at the same time, challenged to express that point of view coherently.”— Guy Shebat, Youngstown State University“It is good for students to realize that young people can write about real issues, and America Now's insight into the writing process validates budding as well as reluctant writers.”— Wendy Scott, Buffalo State College

America Now: High School Edition
Ninth Edition| ©2011
Robert Atwan

America Now: High School Edition
Ninth Edition| 2011
Robert Atwan
Table of Contents
Who Named America?
Elian Gonzales
The Cold War and the Fallout Shelter
The Telegram
Jeffrey Rosen, Nude Awakening [The New Republic, February 4, 2010]
Garry Trudeau, “Hi, Dad,” Doonesbury [Syndicated, November 8, 2009]
Mary Katharine Ham, We Shall Overshare [The Weekly Standard, June 8, 2009]
Brent Baughman, Growing older in the digital age: An exercise in egotism [The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson College, February 25, 2010] (student essay)
Elizabeth Stone, Grief in the Age of Facebook [The Chronicle Review, March 5, 2010]
Bill McKibben, Waste Not Want Not [Mother Jones, May/June 2009]
Jeff Goodell, Warming Gets Worse [Rolling Stone, November 12, 2009]
Cal Thomas, Sinking 'Climate Change' [Townhall.com, June 3, 2010]
Yevgeniya Lomakina, 'Going green' Misses the Point [The Daily Collegian, University of Massachusetts, April 22, 2010] (student essay)
America Then…1985
The Warming of the World
12. Immigration: Who Is An American?
Debate: Does Immigration Increase the Virtues of Hard Work and Fortitude in the U.S.? Tamar Jacoby, YES [In Character, Spring 2009]
Mark Krikorian, NO [In Character, Spring 2009]
Luis J. Rodriguez, Slurring Spanish [The Progressive, March 2010]
Elyse Toplin, Uniting Families [The Hullabaloo, Tulane University, January 29th, 2010] (student essay)
Ira Berlin, Migrations Forced and Free [Smithsonian, February 2010]
America Then…1999
Remember When This Was Heavy Traffic?
Authors

Robert Atwan
Robert Atwan is the series editor of the annual Best American Essays, which he founded in 1985. A former director of The Blue Hills Writing Institute at Curry College, Atwan has published essays, reviews, and critical articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, River Teeth, Creative Nonfiction, and many other publications. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, he has also edited Ten on Ten: Major Essayists on Recurring Themes (1992); Our Times (1998); and Convergences (2009). He has coedited (with Jon Roberts) Left, Right, and Center: Voices from Across the Political Spectrum (1996) and is editor of America Now (2017).

America Now: High School Edition
Ninth Edition| 2011
Robert Atwan
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