American Panorama: East of the Mississippi
Genre: Travel
Contributors: Roger Angell, Arthur Bartlett, James Warner Bellah, Carl L. Biemiller, Dorothy Canfield, Carl Carmer, Hodding Carter, Bruce Catton, Clyde Brion Davis, Clifford Dowdey, William Faulkner, William Francis Guess, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., John Knowles, Christopher LaFarge, Ovid Williams Pierce, Bentz Plagemann, Conrad Richter, Henry Morton Robinson, Mark Schorer, Budd Schulberg, David Wayne, Calder Willingham, William E. Wilson
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York
Series: A Holiday Magazine Book
Year: 1960
Pages: 466
Format: Hardcover, with dust jacket
Provenance: "H. & M. Krehbiel 1961" written in ball point pen on first page
Random Passage: "The 60,000 permanent residents of this gusty town welome 15,000,000 guests each year, right around the calendar. As Atlantic City goes, so goes the entire Jersey coast." (from New Jersey, by Carl L. Biemiller)
Notes: A collection of travel articles, each focusing on a single U.S. state, originally published in Holiday magazine between 1947 and 1960 (there was also, of course, a companion West of the Mississippi book). My favorite (thus far) is Budd Shulberg's wry assessment of the state of Florida, from the swampy keys to the lobby of the newly-opened Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. Holiday existed from 1946 to 1977, having a reputation for fine quality journalism and excellent photography/art. In 2013, Vanity Fair did a great retrospective history on the magazine.
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