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Books about the American dream and civilisation. Novelist and Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, Lisa Appignanesi and Claire Fox, director and founder of the Institute of Ideas join Sue MacGregor to discuss books by Willa Cather, John Armstrong and Joseph O'Neill A Lost Lady by Willa Cather Publisher: Virago Modern Classics Netherland by Joseph O'Neill Publisher: Fourth Estate In Search of Civilisation - Remaking a tarnished idea by John Armstrong Publisher: Penguin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2010.
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