The Shape of Things to Come Greil Marcus

Name: The Shape of Things to Come By Greil Marcus
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Summary

America is a nation whose sense of righteousness goes hand in hand with paranoia. Greil Marcus explores the influence of culture and politics on the American psyche - and the idealism, horror, eloquence and violence integral to its founding narratives.

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

About Greil Marcus

Greil Marcus was born in San Francisco in 1945. He is the author of Mystery Train, Invisible Republic, Lipstick Traces and Double Trouble, and the editor of Lester Bangs's Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. In 1998 he curated the exhibition '1948' at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Marcus writes a bi-weekly column for salon.com and a monthly column for Interview. He was described by John Rockwell in the New York Times as 'a writer of rare perception and a genuinely innovative thinker'. Greil Marcus lives in Berkeley, California.

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Sku

GOR003200578

ISBN 13

9780571221578

ISBN 10

0571221572

Title

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

Author

Greil Marcus

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

20070802

Number of pages

336

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N/A

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