A More Goodly Country: A Personal History of America - Paperback

by John Sanford (Author), Jack Mearns (Introduction by)

Beginning in A.D. 1000 with Leif Ericson and ending with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, John Sanford (1904-2003), recipient of the PEN Award and the Los Angeles Times Lifetime Achievement Award, presents in poetic prose a searing personal history of the United States.

"It was, and it is, an unrelenting and accusatory book. No one who values his country can find its charges easy to bear-and yet I value my country, too, and the book was written only to make it better."

- John Sanford, in his preface to the 1982 Black Sparrow reissue of A More Goodly Country