<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The work of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald virtually defined what it meant to be American in the first half of this century</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">When many of our greatest authors were children, they were first published in the pages of <span class="typestyle"> St. Nicholas.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck">He recreated with perfect pitch every tone of voice, every creak and rattle of an America that was disintegrating, even as it gave birth to the country we inhabit today.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">The word emerged during the Depression to define a new kind of American adolescence, one that prevailed for half a century and may now be ending.</span></p>
