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| The Dustbin of History in a World Made Fresh | 13 | |
| History Lesson | 21 | |
| The Mask of Dimitrios | 29 | |
| Myth and Misquotation | 36 | |
| A Single Revelation: On Peter Handke's Short Letter, Long Farewell | 49 | |
| Gotterdammerung after Twenty-One Years: On Nazi-Hunting Thrillers | 52 | |
| You Could Catch It: On Guy Debord's Panegyric | 70 | |
| Dylan as Historian: On "Blind Willie McTell" | 80 | |
| Happy Endings: On E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime and Robert Altman's Nashville | 88 | |
| Cowboys and Germans: On Wim Wenders's Emotion Pictures | 97 | |
| Cowboy Boots and Germans: On A Susan Sontag Reader | 103 | |
| The Bob McFadden Experience: On The Beat Generation CD Box Set | 111 | |
| The Expanding Vacant Spot: On Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson's And Their Children after Them | 119 | |
| Jan and Dean as Purloined Letter: On Dead Man's Curve: The Story of Jan and Dean | 126 | |
| Dead Man's Curve: On American Hot Wax | 133 | |
| When You Walk in the Room: On Robert Johnson | 141 | |
| Cretins, Fools, Morons, and Lunatics: On Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum | 155 | |
| Old-Time Religion: On Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae | 162 | |
| A Change in the Weather: On The Book of J | 169 | |
| Lost and Found: On the Exhibition Ice Age Art | 175 | |
| Escape from New York: On Herschel Chipp's Picasso's "Guernica" | 185 | |
| A Dream of the Cold War: On The Manchurian Candidate | 192 | |
| John Wayne Listening | 209 | |
| Germany in a Second Language: On Peter Schneider's The Wall Jumper | 216 | |
| The Deborah Chessler Story | 225 | |
| Think We Might Get Some Rain? | 241 | |
| Sources | 253 | |
| Acknowledgments | 261 | |
| Credits | 264 | |
| Index | 265 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Eiji Yoshida
reviewed The Dustbin of History on October 21, 2012
The Dustbin of History
If life still allows me to be at a good university and to be able to go to a series of lectures on diverse and loosely linked subjects, and to take my time with some of the more closely argued concepts and to be made to chuckle with recognition or surprise, then life would be quite like reading The Dustbin of History.
Sometimes obscure, sometimes somewhat dated in his points of cultural reference (ok it was published in 1995 - but even then it was only dons and bar props who were pointing to these sources) but always well argued, thought provoking and entertaining.
I've been drawn through these essays at a dash. I shall return to each one separately and give it the full attention it deserves.
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