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... symbolic import of AQ’s much belated acceptance of Horace Greeley’s directive to ‘go west claimed, surprisingly, that the city was ‘‘indica- tive of the key issues that define contemporary American studies’’ and titled the whole issue ‘‘Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cul- tures 18 Yet the hubris of...

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