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Article: Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- May 29, 1989
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LIPSTICK TRACES: A Secret History of the 20th Century. By Greil Marcus. Harvard University Press. 496 pp. $29.95.
Remember Connections? The popular PBS TV series, then book, by journalist James Burke took fascinating trips along history's back roads in order to link events, inventions, technologies and ideas in ways more odd than the textbooks told us. He leaped confidently and wittily from the discovery of the touchstone to the origins of coinage to the Alexandrian library to astronomy to medieval sea trade to Earth's magnetic field to gunpowder to vacuums to weather observatories and radar in order to finish up with the atomic bomb -to take just one ...
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