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The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History (Updated Edition) by Lawrence W. Levine Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1993 ISBN-10: 0-19-508297-4 / 0195082974 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-508297-5 / 9780195082975 "The future is certain," according to an old Soviet joke, "it is only the past that is unpredictable." But it is not solely in totalitarian societies that the past is contested terrain. Disagreements about the meaning and significance of past events and people have been part of the landscape in ou |