Download or read book The History of the Future written by Edward McPherson and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to Dallas? In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth. Private streets, racism, and the St. Louis World’s Fair; fracking for oil and digging for dinosaurs in North Dakota boomtowns—Americana slides into apocalypse in these essays, revealing us to ourselves.