Talking About Dreaming Up America Part One

Russell Banks and Dan Simon, publisher of Seven Stories Press, in conversation. An mp3 download of this conversation is available from www.sevenstories.com.

As America undergoes global scrutiny, acclaimed novelist Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions with conversational ease and the insightful historical observation found in his works of fiction. Drawing on politics, literature, film, and a deep knowledge of American history, Banks traces the first colonists' differing motives, their points of intersection through the centuries, and the inevitable influence of the existing cultures they encountered or enslaved, building a vision of an empire built upon destructive-though also creative-forces.

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