For our American Icons series this fall, we've looked at nine different great works, but we've also been asking listeners to suggest what our tenth should be. Laura Detre, a listener in Pittsburgh, suggested the television show "Dallas.”
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As a great American book I suggest "New English Canaan" by Thomas Morton of "Merrymount" (1637)---the notoriously observant and satirical portrait of the original America by a Renaissance man who loved it here; who prospered through a (yes) multicultural approach to the land and its Native peoples; and who---although the "Pilgrims" and Puritans threw him out of the country THREE times---kept coming back, and turns out to be (again, yes) America's First Poet in English.
Morton's "Canaan" is a 3-part portrait of Native American cultures, which he admired; a catalog of America's beauty and potentials; and a hilarious guide on how NOT to colonize that earned him the title of America's First Rascal.
Last year, Mass. Governor Deval Patrick issued a Proclamation recognizing Morton's many achievements---and his story is a jaw-dropping re-education of what America was and still can be.
I would like to suggest the Beach Boys group as an American Icon. I would vote for them over Dallas.
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