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The Golden Book Of Springfield by Vachel Lindsay. This speculative, metafictional novel follows a Springfield diarist who helps organize the Prognosticator’s Club to imagine the city’s future as told by a miraculous Golden Book. In 2018, a visionary text appears with wings and illuminations, guiding politicians, artists, and citizens through festivals, temples, and social reforms. Witnesses including a florist, a teacher, a rabbi, a theater director, and Joseph Bartholdi Michael and his clan recount visions in which Johnny Appleseed and Hunter Kelly are revived as civic saints. The book’s prophecies spur mass pageants, new power structures, and debates about democracy, class, art, and religion, all set against Springfield’s double Gothic walls and a World Government. The Golden Book becomes a magical instrument for social transformation and a satirical mirror to early 20th-century American culture, exploring the price of utopian dreams and the fragility of communal myth-making.
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