- Civilization, American literature, History and criticism, American literature, history and criticism
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination.
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- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 1112
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Harvard University Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780674265813
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