The first of that "genre" I read and would recommend is

"American Myth American Reality"

James Oliver Robertson
c) 1980 James Robertson
Published simultaneously in Canada by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., Toronto
Hill and Wang - a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Another:

"The Pleasures of the Past - Reflections in Modern English History"
On the jacket: "Reflections on queens, kings, knaves, stately homes, sex,
food, and more in modern England"

David Cannadine
c) David Cannadine 1989
W.W. Norton & Company
New York London

And:

"Wake Up Dead Man - Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons" Collected
and Edited by Bruce Jackson

A Harvard Paperback

c) 1972 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

"Myth does not want to face the fact that violence is meaningless. That is
my definition of myth - giving meaning to what has none."
-Rene Girard


George Myers



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