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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West

by Richard White

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Publisher Comments:

This book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so without regard for present inhabitants.

Review:

"An excellent new synthesis of Western history...[White] is a lively, graceful writer...and he tells a story very different from the traditional picture of the progress of Anglo-American civilization, but no less compelling." New York Times Book Review

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"This book is nearly all-embracing in scope: in well-written and densely packed chapters organized topically, White takes us from the times of early Spanish explorers in the 1500s to the years of the Ronald Reagan presidency." Pacific Northwest Quarterly
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780806125671
Subtitle:
A New History of the American West
Author:
White, Richard
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press
Location:
Norman :
Subject:
History
Subject:
United states
Subject:
United States - 19th Century/Old West
Subject:
United States - State & Local
Subject:
West
Subject:
West (U.S.) History.
Subject:
United States - State & Local - General
Copyright:
c199
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographies and index.
Series Volume:
no. 7
Publication Date:
September 1993
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
xix, 644 p.
Dimensions:
1001x692x139 247
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