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The History of the Future

American Essays

In this collection of essays, Edward McPherson considers various locations across the United States and considers that place’s future through the lens of its past.

The essays area mix of memoir, history, and reporting; McPherson had lunch with an astronaut, dug for dinosaurs, and read about everything from architecture to nuclear physics to inform his essays on American life.

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