Over the last decade William Giraldi has established himself as a charismatic and uncompromising literary essayist, "a literature-besotted Midas of prose" (Cynthia Ozick). Now, American Audacity gathers a selection of his most powerful considerations of American writers and themes--a "gorgeous fury of language and sensibility" (Walter Kirn)--including an introductory call to arms for twenty-first-century American literature, and a new appreciation...