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Title

Second drafts of history : essays / Lance Morrow.

Author

Morrow, Lance.

Publication

New York : Basic Books, [2006], ©2006.

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Description

xi, 323 pages; 24 cm

Contents

The fate of the reckless -- The Nixon library -- Napoleon in Egypt -- A country storm -- Reagan and Mrs. Lindbergh at the full moon -- The supermice -- Reagan and Mondale -- The beauty of weeds -- Animal feelings -- The earth cracks open -- Ruin of a cat, ghost of a dog -- Caught in the act of soliloquy -- The millennium -- The hereweareagain gaieties -- Chicago, 1968 -- Elephant lake -- Chuck Jones, physicist and philosopher -- Don't spit in the fire -- Katharine Graham -- The death of Daniel Pearl -- Hedley Donovan ascends to the forty-sixth floor -- Isaac Newton -- Monica Lewinsky meets Rwanda -- Stalin's Sancho Panza -- Jackie Kennedy -- Rats live on no evil star -- The death of John Kennedy Jr. -- George Wallace -- Scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Toad -- Tabloid Shakespeare -- Frank Capra's America -- Welcome to the global village -- Time in a rectangle -- The blood sport of moral dilemmas -- When artists distort history -- Gravitas -- Gay marriage -- This land is whose land? -- The Pledge of Allegiance -- A thousand stockings -- No census for Moses -- The right to wear t-shirts -- Gramsci versus Tocqueville -- Before the fall -- Heraclitus -- The plague mentality -- Tragedy as child's play -- An elegy for integration -- The museum of slavery -- Hiroshima -- A Holocaust of words -- The Holocaust museum -- Collateral damage -- Munich and Vietnam -- A convert's confession -- Three takes on America -- Names -- Diana's fame -- The death of J. Peterman -- The World Trade Center -- The French have the right not to have existed -- Flag burning -- Death in Texas -- I came, I saw, I spoiled everything -- The sixties will never end -- A boy dies -- The seductiveness of guns -- Rape in war -- Busybodies, crybabies -- Fifteen cheers for abstinence -- Stem cells and sin and J. Robert Oppenheimer -- The fire hose of history -- A pope apologizes -- The razor blades' graveyard -- Books for emergencies -- Mars as divine cartoon -- The moon and the clones -- A mystic of houses -- Evil twins -- The greatest invention in the world -- The future of war -- Deconstructing the Super Bowl -- Mount Sinai -- Faith and the global city -- Miracles -- Hooray for Bill Gates ... I guess -- The pandaemonium of men -- Forgiveness.

ISBN

0465047505 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005017092

OCLC

• OCM60743121
• SCSB-5222567

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries