Parade : Alfred Kazin – “The American Procession”

"Emerson made me a Jew" - Alfred Kazin, Journals Ralph Waldo Emerson is the prophet pointing out of the Puritanical church into the "Crucial Century" of American Literature, which, according to Alfred Kazin's "The American Procession," reaches from the 1830s to 1930s, from Emerson to "The Sound and the Fury." Kazin is a band-leader, deftly …