The History of the Future

ISBN: 1566894670

Author: McPherson, Edward

Condition: New

In The History of the Future, McPherson explores America in all its beauty and strangeness. He is funny and searchinga joy to read.Elizabeth KolbertPraise for Edward McPherson:Mr. McPherson is an intrepid traveler. . . a charming and literate companion, and he approaches his task with becoming modesty.The Wall Street JournalWhat 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 Worlds Fair; fracking for oil and digging for dinosaurs in North Dakota boomtownsAmericana slides into apocalypse in these essays, revealing us to ourselves.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 teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.