"A Secular Revelation"

"But the subject might just as well be a famous speech or Supreme Court decision or movie or painting or sculpture or manifesto or comic strip. There's even an entry about the Winchester rifle. This book is not so much a history of our literature as it is a literary version of our history, told through the culture we've created to recount our past and conjure our future."

Laura Miller in Salon reviews Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors's A New Literary History of America.