The Beginning Of The East - Reviews

"Like Henry Miller, Max Yeh is dismissive of literary convention. He's a writer on the rampage, but his appetite is for history, for political meaning, for ethical life. He's an origast, but of the intellect. He imagines American back to Columbus and forward again, mapping his own brain, and possibly ours, in what is finally an original and provocative book."

—E.L. Doctorow, author of Billy Bathgate

"For a fresh take on the myth and reality of present-day America, free of cant and pedantry, this book is invaluable. Its quality is clear: first class, untrammeled, an extraordinary work."

—John Loftus, painter and author of Toulouse-Lautrec