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Mystic Chords of Memory : The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture
Mystic Chords of Memory The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture Author:Michael Kammen With the same exacting scholarship, brilliant cultural analysis, and stylish prose that won him a Pulitzer Prize for A Machine That Would Go of Itself, Kammen examines the paradox of American tradition. How, he asks, did the land of the future acquire a past? And how has our More... collective memory of that past been distorted -- and, ... more »at times, manufactured? 145 photos.« less