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 |
From inside the book
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... tell us crucial stories about ourselves . Forty years after his first byline , it's important to keep paying attention to what he has to say . " -Mark Weingarten , San Francisco magazine " Marcus is lively , obstreperous , often ...
... telling, it is a story told more in art than in politics, even if it is at the heart of our politics—our ongoing struggle to define what the nation is and what it is for. In the nineteenth century, along with Melville and Hawthorne ...
... tell . We never confess . When activists were paraded before grand juries , asked to name names , to humiliate themselves and to participate in destroying the movement , most refused and went to jail rather than say a word . Outside ...
... telling , it is a story told more in art than in politics , even if it is at the heart of our politics — our ongoing struggle to define what the nation is and what it is for . In the nine- teenth century , along with Melville and ...
... tell you that the Jews are not the only people who built the tombs of the prophets ? " Douglass said to the Rochester Ladies ' Anti - slavery Society on 5 July 1852 , speaking both of " your nation " and of " my fellow citizens " -even ...
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 |