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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... what's most exhilarating about Marcus's style : the ability to take an obscure , borderline - absurd object and animate it with genuine meaning . " -Benjamin Healy and Benjamin Schwartz , The Atlantic " [ A ] funhouse stroll around the ...
... what the nation is and what it is for. In the nineteenth century, along with Melville and Hawthorne, Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass and Edgar Allan Poe, politicians and preachers asked if the country understood ...
... what hap- pened . It seemed presumptuous to say anything , and in any case I had nothing to say . I listened instead . " Where is the building ? Did it fall down ? Where is it ? " -Joe Disordo , on the collapse of Two World Trade Center ...
... What we saw on Tuesday , terrible as it is , could be minuscule if , in fact , God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve ... The abortionists have got to bear some burden for ...
... what the nation is and what it is for . In the nine- teenth century , along with Melville and Hawthorne , Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe , Frederick Douglass and Edgar Allan Poe , politicians and preachers asked if the country ...
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 |