Hymning & Hawing about America: A Few Symbol-Minded Essays

By Frank Trippett

Hymning & Hawing About America is a collection of essays by Frank Trippett, who has been called "one of the really mind-blowing talents of his generation as a journalist, essayist, and story teller."... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738822396
• ISBN13: 9780738822396
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Engaging, challenging, occasionally iconoclastic

Hymning & Hawing About America is an engaging, challenging, occasionally iconoclastic, and highly recommended collection of forty-two essays by Frank Trippett on American culture, politics and history. The pieces range from the psychology of gambling to an analysis of flag-burning. Trippett writes with an easy wit and an engaging wisdom that readers will find as informed as it is informative, as thoughtful as it is thought provoking.