“I found great pleasure in Greil Marcus’s <i>Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby</i>, about the idea of the American dream, its allure, the exploitation of it.” —Percival Everett, <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, “By The Book” section<br /><br />“Excerpts are well-chosen. Anything that drives readers back to a transcendent work, fully “commensurate to [our] capacity for wonder”, is to be commended."—Stephen Phillips,<i> The Irish Times</i><br /><br />“Greil Marcus is one of our greatest living cultural critics. Not only is this a wildly original essay on one of America’s most revered novels—it’s also a fitting capstone to his oeuvre.”—James Miller<br /><br />“Now more than ever, we need to think long and hard about our collective national fantasies. There's no one better suited to this task than Greil Marcus.”—David Treuer, author of <i>The </i><i>Heartbeat of Wounded Knee</i><br /><br />“With history, with narrative flourish, and with thoughtfully woven connective tissue, Greil Marcus takes <i>The Great Gatsby</i> and gives it a newer, richer life well beyond the one it has already lived.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of <i>Go Ahead in The Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest</i><br /><br />“Greil Marcus’s prose has an electric wondering urgency; the artworks under description crackle and glow, illuminating whole landscapes of history and culture. This method has never found a better home than <i>Gatsby</i>. The result kept me up all night.”—Jonathan Lethem, author of <i>The Ecstasy of Influence</i><br /><br />“<i>Under the Red White and Blue</i> is a soaring, roaring song of a book. The pretext is <i>The Great Gatsby</i>, but the value comes in riding along as Marcus beats back into the past and the fate of America.”—David Thomson, author of <i>The New Biographical Dictionary of Film</i><br /><br />