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Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers Sports_Gift_Guide politics -- remain with usA deeply considered and provocative new look at major American writersincluding Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and W. H. AudenEdward Mendelsons Moral Agents is also a work of critical biography in the great tradition of Plutarch, Samuel Johnson, and Emerson. Any important writer, in Mendelsons view, writes in response to an idea of the good life that is inseparable from the life the writer lives. Fusing biography and criticism and based on extensive new