· With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He writes with conversational ease and emotional insight, drawing on contemporary politics, literature, film, and his knowledge of 3/5(2). · Russell Banks describes the concept with more clarity than most, however, by considering three possibilities, and three quite different “dreams”: (1) The Spanish dream of El Dorado promising untold wealth, to be appropriated, of course, by greedy Europeans; (2) Ponce de Leon's dream of the Fountain of Youth, promising New Beginnings and second chances; and (3) the religious dream Author: Welsh, Jim. Dreaming Up America. With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He writes with conversational ease and emotional insight, drawing on contemporary politics, literature, film, /5.
Dreaming Up America. byRussell Banks. Buy the eBook. Price With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. By: Russell Banks. Publisher: Seven Stories Press (RHP). Dreaming Up America. by Robert Birnbaum. Author and filmmaker Russell Banks (The Reserve, The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction), who has 16 well-crafted novels under his belt, ventures into nonfiction with this meditation on the origins of America.
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