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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sketch
MAPS
The Dustbin of History in a World Made Fresh
History Lesson
The Mask of Dimitrios
Myth and Misquotation
TERRITORIES
A Single Revelation
On Peter Handke's Short Letter, Long Farewell
Götterdämmerung after Twenty-One Years
On Nazi-Hunting Thrillers
You Could Catch It
On Guy Debord's Panegyric
Dylan as Historian
On "Blind Willie McTell"
Happy Endings
On E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime and Robert Altman's Nashville
Cowboys and Germans
On Wim Wender's Emotion Pictures
Cowboy Boots and Germans
On A Susan Sontag Reader
The Bob McFadden Experience
On The Beat Generation CD Box Set
The Expanding Vacant Spot
On Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson's And Their Children after Them
Jan and Dean as Purloined Letter
On Dead Man's Curve: The Story of Jan and Dean
Dead Man's Curve
On American Hot Wax
When You Walk in the Room
On Robert Johnson
Cretins, Fools, Morons, and Lunatics
On Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum
Old-Time Religion
On Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae
A Change in the Weather
On The Book of J
Lost and Found
On the Exhibition Ice Age Art
Escape from New York
On Herschel Chipp's Picasso's "Guernica"
A Dream of the Cold War
On The Manchurian Candidate
John Wayne Listening
Germany in a Second Language
On Peter Schneider's The Wall Juniper
The Deborah Chessler Story
Think We Might Get Some Rain?
Sources
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index
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