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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... Lincoln , and Martin Luther King , Jr. , to include the oracular properties of Philip Roth , David Lynch , Allen Ginsberg , and ( to quote a representatively offbeat chapter title ) the actor Bill Pullman's face . This last captures ...
... Lincoln in 1865 , delivering his Second Inaugural Address , to Martin Luther King , Jr. , ninety - eight years later , speak- ing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial , America has told itself that story . Whether America has heard ...
... Lincoln asked the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield , Illinois , early in 1838. He was just short of twenty - nine , a first - term representa- tive in the state legislature ; he was addressing a self - improvement society . Shall we ...
... Lincoln's time , up to our own and certainly past it , pious and self - promoting denunciations of the corruptions breeding within the republic have been and will be part of the re- public's speech : Unless we rid ourselves of this ...
... Lincoln all of this was part of political speech . All sorts of public actors affirmed the American covenant , its promise and its betrayal ; at their best , as with Douglass in his oration " What to the Slave Is Your Fourth of July ...
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 |