Conversations with E. L. Doctorow

by E.L. Doctorow

Book Overview

We're living a national ideology that's invisible to us because we're inside it." "We're living a national ideology that's invisible to us because we're inside it." At the outset of his career E. L. Doctorow told Paul Levine, "History written by historians is clearly insufficient." Doctorow's novels carry out that conviction by imagining the great moments of American history--the Old West, the gilded age, the Depression, the cold war--as backdrops...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157806144X
• ISBN13: 9781578061440
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"