America's Past
To the Editors:
Lance Morrow's "Rediscovering America" [July 7] was an enlightened, critical and sensitive review of recent American history. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1786, "History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future."
Dewey P. Fasnacht Jr. Akron
You say that "of all cultural adjustments, the notion of an end to progress seems the most difficult for Americans to accept." What is progress? The neutron bomb, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Miami? Perhaps the real American myth is believing that progress will...
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