Introduction: Affected Readers in an Imagined Community
1. Moodiness: The Everyday America of Beauvoir’s America Day by Day
2. Curiosity and its Discontents: Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and America and Americans
3. Hopefulness: On the Road with Charles Kuralt
4. Incredulity: Reading Sarah Vowell
Conclusion: Affected Critics: the Nation and the Limits of Critique
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