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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... Rock ' N ' Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock ' N ' Roll by Lester Bangs ( 1987 ) The Rose & the Briar : Death , Love and Liberty in the American Ballad ( 2004 , with Sean Wilentz ) Additional Praise for The Shape of Things to Come "
... rock critic turns his kitchen - sink approach to the role of secu- lar prophecy in recent American history , expanding the circle beyond John Winthrop , Abraham Lincoln , and Martin Luther King , Jr. , to include the oracular properties ...
... rock critic writing in the field's early days , Marcus helped introduce an intellectual rigor to ostensibly friv- olous subjects , drawing unlikely connections between disparate figures ( say , Johnny Rotten and medieval heretics ) ...
... rock of inequality had changed into a slaveholding nation " dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . " In the United States , utopia was still where history pointed , even if that history was now splitting in half ...
... rock of a metaphysically perfect idea , and on that rock it broke into pieces : the nation , not the idea . " I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted , and every hill and mountain shall be made low , the rough places ...
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 |