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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... someone might suppose they were blaming the drought on the Chief ! ... Every moment everyone felt fear , nameless ... someone's little daughter who had accompanied her mother to work , end- less husbands and wives and daughters and sons ...
... someone has to hear . And then what ? Then , if the chord is struck truly , " the throng of Selves / that make this nation one body of Prophecy " appears . For years now , since perhaps the end of the first Bush presi- dency , when Bill ...
... someone said at the time. “All those hours he was sittin' here, that crazy cracker was workin' out how he was gonna bag that jig.” Like those of Winthrop and Lincoln, King's speech too has become part of the American canon, but less as ...
... Someone's drawer . The only surviving manuscript copy of the sermon is not in Winthrop's hand , though it was likely copied by his son Forth . There is only one men- tion of the speech by Winthrop's contemporaries in letters , diaries ...
... someone said at the time . “ All those hours he was sittin ' here , that crazy cracker was workin ' out how he was gonna bag that jig . " Like those of Winthrop and Lincoln , King's speech too has be- come part of the American canon ...
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 |