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AMERICANS AN D THEIR LAND AMERICANS AN D THEIR THE HOUSE BUILT ON ABUNDANCE ANNE MACKIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS ANN ARBOR ToAl exI,s aarnaId,s aiah, whoo pened mebe fore thlea ndsocfta hhpeee a rt. Copyri©gh btyAn ne Macki2n0 06 All righrtess erved Publisihnet dh eU niteSdt atoefAms e ricbay TheU niversoifMt iyc higParne ss Manufactuirnet dh eU niteSdt atoefAms e rica @Printoenda cid-frpeaep er 20092 0082 007 2006 4 32 No parotft hipsu blicamtaiyob ner eproduscteodr,e d ina r etriseyvsatle omrt, r ansmiitnat neydfo rm orb ya nym eanse,l ectromneicch,a niocrao lt,h erwise, withotuhtew rittpeenr missoifto hnep ublisher. A CIcPa traelcfooorgtr hdbi osioa skv aifrloamtb hBlere i Ltiibsrha ry. LibraorfCy o ngreCsast aloging-in-PDuabtlai cation MackiAnnn,e . Americanasn dt heliarn IdA nneM ackin. p. cm. Inclubdiebsl iograrpehfiecraelan ncdei sn dex. ISBN-3:1 789-04-72-15156-3 (clo:ta hlkp.a per) ISBN-r0o-4:7 2-1165-51( pbk:a. lkp.a perr). 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“A compelling, even moving, portrait of the national landscape—its past, its meaning, its urgent need of rescue.”—James Carroll, author of House of War and An American Requiem, winner of the National Book Award “Anne Mackin has taken a fresh and provocative look at that most fascinating of re
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