Second drafts of history
Subtitle: essays
By: Lance Morrow
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780465047505
Subjects: History
Description: Collects the author's essays, primarily from "Time" magazine, on topics such as his Jesuit high-school education, ghosts and haunting, war in Sarajevo, life in the country, and tourists' effect on the places they visit.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1: Moments. 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; title: pt. 2: People. Chuck Jones, physicist and philosopher ; Don't spit in the fire ; Katherine 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; title: pt. 3: Images. 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 ; Gramschi 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; title: pt. 4: Outrages. The World Trade Center ; The French have the right not to have existed ; Flag burning ; Death in Texas; title: pt. 5: Dilemmas. 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; title: pt. 6: Metaphysics. 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 ; The religion of big weather ; Mount Sinai ; Faith and the global city ; Miracles ; Hooray for Bill Gates; title: I guess ; The pandaemonium of men ; Forgiveness.