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In Radiant Daughter, award-winning novelist Patricia Grossman follows a Czech-American family for twenty-seven years, beginning in suburban Chicago in 1969 and ending in Brooklyn, in seaside Little Odessa, in 1996. Though the novel begins as a traditional assimilation story immigrant parents, native children, and the conflicts one might expect it evolves into a highly particular and harrowing tale surrounding the descent of Elise Blazek, the family s brightest star. Radiant Daughter is also a story of translation between generations, from the Czech of Irena and Stepan, to the American of the...

Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image.

Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably...