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A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways.

What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to Dallas? In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth. Private streets, racism, and the St. Louis World's Fair; fracking for oil and digging for dinosaurs in North Dakota boomtowns--Americana slides into apocalypse in these essays, revealing us to ourselves.

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  • Title The History of the Future
  • Author Edward McPherson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Coffee House Press
  • Publication date 2017-05-02
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9781566894678 / 1566894670
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Description and travel, United States - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016039380
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.924

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/2017, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/20/2017, Page 0

About the author

Edward McPherson is the author of two previous books: Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat (Faber & Faber) and The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats (HarperCollins). He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review, Tin House, and the American Scholar, among others. He has received a Pushcart Prize, the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and the Gesell Award from the University of Minnesota, where he received his MFA. He teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
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