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Acknowledgments ix introduction The End of History 1 one After Enlightenment: Mason & Dixon and the Ampersand 31 two After the Fall: Roth and the 1960s 61 three After Identity: Morrison and Genealogy 91 four How to Tell a True Cold War Story: O’Brien, Didion, and Closure 119 five History Is What Heals: 9/11 and Narrative in Eugenides and Lethem 155 C O N T E N T S viii contents afterword DeLillo and the Anticipation of Retrospection 189 Notes 203 Works Cited 213 Index 231 ...

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