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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... Secret History of the Twentieth Century ( 1989 ) Dead Elvis : A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession ( 1991 ) In the Fascist Bathroom : Punk in Pop Music , 1977–1992 ( 1993 , originally published as Ranters & Crowd Pleasers ) The Dustbin ...
... secret unto his servants the prophets . The lion hath roared , who will not fear ? The Lord God hath spoken , who can but prophesy ? Through three public speeches , from Winthrop , Lincoln , and Th King , we can hear the prophet Amos's ...
... secret , and four of them hanged - gathered in the crowd directly below . Inside the great national ceremony of conti- nuity and renewal , there was a man walking alone at night through a forest as bats flew through the trees . There ...
... secret language , his cadences in a declension at once thrilling and comforting , each word descending the steps of its phrase in perfect rhythm — this is what's at stake as King speaks . The curse is disguised as a blessing . Lincoln ...
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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 |