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Ragtime
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E. L. Doctorow
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What are the themes of Ragtime?
How does E. L. Doctorow discuss the nature of “the historical” and the “fictional” in Ragtime through a fictional account of America, and how does this fictional account become a means to analyze the social and cultural dynamics of America?
Doctorow quotation? Did E. L. Doctorow say "Duplicity, of course, is the basis of civilization"?