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lustreless...Bleistein overviews history with cold and detached reason. Perhaps, as the Marchesa in Poe's Venetian tale "The Assignation," Bleistein sees in the perspective of Canaletto, "the eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of its sorrow, and sees in innumerable far-off places, the woe which is close at hand" - in the summer of 1919, there were race riots all over America, the worst of which were in Chicago. reference topics
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