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A New Literary History of America
A New Literary History of America | Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors
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Traces the dynamic expression of the American experience and how the nation's sense of identity offers alternate perspectives into history, in an anthology that also explores modern cultural creations in a range of disciplines.
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A New Literary History of America | Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors

From our prisons to our ghettos, from our boardrooms to the Oval Office, from gangsta rap to the Patriot Act, America is a hardboiled nation. To have faith is to be a fool. To expect justice is to accept tyranny. To rally around the flag is to support the torture of human beings while reading our children the Constitution and watching sitcoms about cranky old white men and their beautiful, young, and scantily clad wives—and girlfriends. - p.598-99

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A New Literary History of America | Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors
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Here are some of my doorstoppingest #doorstoppers. I haven't read any of them in full except maybe The Beatles scores 😆 but they are all each fascinating for dipping into for morsels of information. #riotgrams
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk I DID NOT KNOW ASIMOV'S GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE WAS A THING BUT NOW I MUST OWN. (edited) 7y
LindsayReads @TobeyTheScavengerMonk Duuuuuude, he's a scholar on Shakespeare! He offers practically line-by-line context for every play. It'll blow your mind and make you appreciate Shakespeare even more! 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk Ordered! Thanks! 7y
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