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Credits

Writer: Greil Marcus; Genre: Nonfiction; Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

The elder statesman of cultural criticism looks at how the U.S. regards itself through speeches and pop culture (Twin Peaks, The Human Stain).

On America
''[T]he drama in which the country judges itself, asks itself what it really is, what it is for, measures the promise by its betrayal and the betrayal by the promise, has been played out most intensely in art.''

Final Judgment
Though sometimes baffling, Marcus riffs like a great blues guitarist.


 

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