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The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas
A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound and timeless. And,... 100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks ...
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
To borrow the words F. Scott Fitzgerald used to describe New York City in the 1920s, The Great Gatsby possesses "all the iridescence of the beginning of the world." The novel's main characters are ...
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
The novel's main characters are young in a restless America reveling in the excess of the new Modern Age — an age whose anxieties have resurfaced with fresh intensity in our own moment.