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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... town , or the new world , that the Puritans meant to found . God had created difference , Winthrop said , " That every man might have need of other , and from hence they might be all knitt more nearly together in the Bond of brotherly ...
... towns where he grew up , made Lincoln's god at once all - powerful and indistinct . Winthrop's creator- judge had turned into Providence , the " Nature's God " of the Decla- ration of Independence the elemental force of moral harmony ...
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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 |