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The Usable Past
Pictures from America's unsavory history.
Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States
By Vincent Virga and the curators of the Library of Congress, with historical commentary by Alan Brinkley
Knopf; 416 pages; $75
Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
By Michael Lesy
New Press; 207 pages; $40
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Walter Kirn's most recent novels areThe Unbinding, Mission to America andUp in the Air. He lives in Montana and can be reached at walternkirn@gmail.com.
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