If, as Oscar Wilde said, "nothing ages like happiness, " then nothing rejuvenates like a pursuit. That is certainly the American way, and in The Promised Folly, Judith Hall takes a fresh look at our American pursuits, our supreme fictions. She explores the folly that follows mere existence and gives it back to her readers in different voices -- Venus, Walt Whitman, Julius Caesar, "Ma" Rainey -- voices that contain multitudes. Whitman will beco...
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