Book TV: Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors, "A New Literary History of America " Video

Editors Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors examine American history through the lens of literature. Their collection of over two hundred essays from numerous contributors range from Ben Franklin's letters and George Washington's farewell address to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. The editors are joined by Lindsay Waters, executive editor of the humanities at Harvard University Press and take questions from Homi Bhabha, Larry Buell, Glenda Carpio, Liz Cohen, Alex Keyssar, and Judith Tick at the Barker Center for the Humanities at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.