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The History of the Future: American Essays
A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways. What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to Dallas? In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines the space between history, experience, and myth. Private streets, racism, and the St. Louis World’s Fair; fracking for oil and digging for dinosaurs in North Dakota boomtowns—Americana slides into apocalypse in these essays, revealing us to ourselves.
- "Best Books of 2017" (The Guardian, Iowa Public Radio)
- Winner of the 2017 PEN Southwest Book Award
- Finalist for the 2018 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award