The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American VoiceFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 M08 21 - 336 pages From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity |
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... God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve...The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy forty million little ...
... God from the Book of Amos, calling out to the Children of Israel: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.” From John Winthrop in 1630, with “A. “The ship? Great God ...
... God would be the judge; in America, a covenant a few people once made with themselves, a covenant the past made with the future and that every present maintains with both the future and the past, passing that judgment on America is ...
... God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve ... The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked . And when we destroy forty million little ...
... God , where is the ship ? " -Herman Melville , Moby - Dick , 1851 The Barking Dog America is a place and a story , made up of exuberance and suspi- cion , crime and liberation , lynch mobs and escapes ; its greatest testaments are made ...
Contents
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Philip Roth and the Lost Republic | 41 |
Bill Pullmans Face | 101 |
Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer | 147 |
David Thomas | 201 |
Kansas | 259 |
Acknowledgments | 305 |