The Shape of Things to Come
Prophecy and the American Voice
From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identityAmerica is a place and a story, made up of exuberance and suspicion, crime and liberation, lynch mobs and escapes; its greatest testaments are made of portents and warnings, biblical allusions that lose all certainty in the American air. It is this story of self-invention and nationhood that Greil Marcus rediscovers, beginning with John Winthrop's invocation of America as a city on the hill, Lincoln's second inaugural address, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech about his American dream. Listening to these prop…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4668-0422-7
- EAN: 9781466804227
- Produktnummer: 22468316
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 434 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
- Abbildungen: Frontispiece
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