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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... night. On the runway in Newark on Monday at 8 a.m.—that was OK by one day; on the runway at O'Hare on Tuesday at 8.30—that wasn't so great. The airport shut down, and we were left to make our way into a chaotic Chicago of semi ...
... night and day All the gold and silver are being stolen away Big Joe Turner looking east and west from the dark room of his mind He made it to Kansas City, Twelfth Street and Vine Nothing standing there. —Bob Dylan, “High Water (For ...
... night . On the runway in Newark on Monday at 8 a.m. - that was OK by one day ; on the runway at O'Hare on Tuesday at 8.30 - that wasn't so great . The airport shut down , and we were left to make our way into a chaotic Chicago of semi ...
... night and day All the gold and silver are being stolen away Big Joe Turner looking east and west from the dark room of his mind He made it to Kansas City , Twelfth Street and Vine Nothing standing there . -Bob Dylan , " High Water ( For ...
... night . He was right , as anyone is right when he or she raises this flag . But finally , after more than a century and a half , during which the United States became a world power , and then the most powerful nation in the world , he ...
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 |