Good stories set in America?

Question

Feel free to suggest writers OF the era or writing ABOUT the era.

I've read (and loved) Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, Mark Twain, O. Henry. Dreiser's Sister Carrie didn't appeal to me much, neither did Sinclair's The Jungle.

I'm doing this because after months of extensively studying American history, I'm eager to experience it vicariously.

Answer 1

Star Wars and that one that takes place in Japan.

Answer 2

I would suggest books by Philip Roth, such as The Plot Against America or The Human Stain.
And maybe Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
All very different from Gone With the Wind, but 21st Century!

Answer 3

Anything by John Steinbeck; set in the 30s and 40s.. Irving Stone's books about John and Abigail Adams (18th century, set before, during and after the American Revolution). Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln (Civil War).
Howard Fast wrote "April Morning", about a drummer boy during the Revolution.