100502573344 Jay Parini http://a3.ak.lscdn.net/system/uploads/0c95ed9a-19a0-cd50-a462-3e89d4f818ad/autoscale-80.png 5.0 Promised Land offers a reading of the American psyche, allowing us to reflect on what our past means for who we are now. It is rich and immensely readable work of cultural history that will appeal to all book lovers and students of the American character alike. 1