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Book: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
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  1. Kurt Andersen _ Fantasyland: How America Went

    IN 1967 YOUNG Tom Stoppard had his breakthrough hit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a brilliant play about actors playing characters playing actors playing characters, and the amusing, confusing jumble of fiction and reality. Stoppard knew he was onto something new and important. "I have a feeling," he said at the time, "that almost everybody today is more trying to match himself up with an external image he has of himself, almost as if he's seen himself on a screen.
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