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The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice

Greil Marcus

from the Booksmith:
"In The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice, critic and author Greil Marcus traces the nation’s fable of self-invention from its earliest Puritan beginnings to its successive retellings in the work of diverse contemporary artists. The book – just out in paperback - is an exhilarating and kaleidoscopic investigation of American identity where past and the present merge in the most extraordinary and surprising ways."