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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... nation, the template, in its simplest, starkest terms, came in the voice of 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 ...
... nation, in the shape of a certain kind of American hero, to pass judgment on itself. Israel had the comfort of knowing that should it betray its covenant, God would be the judge; in America, a covenant a few people once made with ...
... nation , I pulled in about 10 p.m. -Hal Foster , Princeton , New Jersey , e - mail , 15 September 2001 For the first time in America , except during the Civil War and the World War , people were afraid to say whatever came to their ...
... " " bark- ing like Robert Johnson . " The story of America as told from the beginning is one of self- invention and nationhood , and before and after the formal found- ing of the nation , the template , in its 6 THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME.
... nation . The prom- ises they made were not made to be broken ; because one people and no other had made a covenant with God , the stakes were much higher . The promises were made to be betrayed , which meant that when one betrayed the ...
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 |