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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... songs that America has been playing all around us .... Nobody does it better than Greil Marcus . " -Michael Roth , San Francisco Chronicle Book Review ( front cover review ) " This is a powerful , confounding , and disturbing book about ...
... song called “Pink Western Range,” “barking 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 founding of the nation, the template, in its ...
... song called " Pink Western Range , " " 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 ...
... of Israel , America has to judge itself . It's a coincidence that " Love and Theft , " the album that carried Bob Dylan's song " High Water , " was released on 11 September NEW YORK , WASHINGTON , D.C. , PENNSYLVANIA 11.
... song , the way it was sung , the words that made up fragments of a story that remained incomplete a disaster , people fleeing for their lives , others seizing on the chance to change their names , make a quick buck , or settle old ...
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 |