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Stanley Booth: Myth and Misquotation

Greil Marcus, The Threepenny Review, Fall 1988

This was originally the address at the commencement ceremonies of the Department of History, University of California at Berkeley, on 20th May 1988. Greil Marcus here dedicates it – with its postscript in The Dustbin of History – to his friend Stanley Booth.

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