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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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"This collection brims with subdued, self-aware brilliance."
Publishers Weekly
"A lively, enlightening, and occasionally disturbing book that envisions the future as already broken."
Kirkus Reviews
"In The History of the Future, McPherson explores America in all its beauty and strangeness. He is funny and searching--a joy to read."
Elizabeth Kolbert