To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
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There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
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Leslie Fiedler (48)
Birth: | 8th March, 1917 |
Death: | 29th January, 2003 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Critic |
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