Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture
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 collective memory...
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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 collective memory of that past been distorted--and, at times, manufactured? 145 photos.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679741770 (0679741771)
Publish date: February 1993
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 877
Edition language: English