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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... is the coeditor of A New Literary History of America , forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2009. He lives in Berkeley , California . This One TDRW - CDY - RKF6 ALSO BY GREIL MARCUS Mystery Train : Images of America.
... live through all time , or die by suicide . " From long before 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 ...
... live , and for what purposes . Though the blessings of God were called upon , and inti- mations of his judgment summoned , it was never about God . If the country betrayed its promises , it would betray itself ; each citizen would find ...
... lives , others seizing on the chance to change their names , make a quick buck , or settle old scores were not a coincidence . America makes its promises and betrays them with great events and muttered curses , with heroic poses and ...
... live out that absolute , or live in its shadow . The three speeches are classics , touchstones , quoted or an- thologized everywhere . Winthrop's " A Modell of Christian Charity " was a lay sermon , dated 1630 , delivered , it is ...
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 |