The 'drizzly November' of the American soul
Kierkegaard comes to America
A Kierkegaardian age of anxiety
The vogue of French existentialism
New York intellectuals and French existentialists
The canon of existentialism
'Cold rage' : Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison
Norman Mailer's existential errand
Robert Frank's existential vision
Existential feminists : Simon de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan
Conclusion : existentialism today and tommorrow.