The Great American Five-Periograph Essay

There's no such thing as the Great American Five-Periograph Essay. In school you're taught to write in order to get a grade not to be read. I spend a lot of time searching for quotes I vaguely have in mind and I know they would be fitting but can't remember I wrote them down. How is it that something that's 60 plus years old got buried and never you know, was the surface until you wrote this book?