Download or read book The American Epic written by John P. McWilliams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McWilliams's 1990 book was the first thorough account of the many attempts to fashion an epic literature (the anxiously anticipated 'American Epic') from a wide range of potentially heroic New World subjects.