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PARTISAN REVIEW
Robert Faggen:
Pl ease join me in thanking Seamus Heaney, Edward Hirsch,
Tomas Venclova, and Adam Zagajewski. Right now Jerzy Illg has set up the
printing press to print souvenirs of thi s festival-that's out in the courtyard.
This evening Robert Hass and Seamus Heaney will read from their work.
How do Americans Use History?
ROY ROSENzwEIG
DAVID THElfN
The Presence of the Past
Roy Rosenzweig
and David Thelen
In a sweeping survey conducted over
nearly a decade, the prominent histo–
rians asked 1,500 Americans about
their connections to the past and
how it influences their daily lives and
hopesfor the future.
The result is a candid series of conver–
sations that reveals the importance of
personal, ethnic,and national stories
over traditional textbook history.
320
pages·
$27.50, doth
Visit
The Presence
of
the Past
web site
at
chnm.gmu.edu/Survey
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Columbia Univcrsity Press
