"SNAPSHOTS USA" (An American Family Album) has a powerful impact as it recalls "The Kent State Tragedy" isolating and exposing its separate strands into what they really are:
premeditated murder.
As Allison Krause's dream burned in a volley of Guardsmen's bullets, the American Dream also went up in flames, in all the media, for all the world to see.
Norman Weissman stirs the ashes of that incinerated dream in the pages of his disturbing novel which pricks the American psyche.
Forty years have plowed the ashes and rubble under, covering it with new edifices. But as long as artists like Norman Weissman continue writing, the seared spirit of the American conscience will continue to trouble our hearts like the unclean hands of Lady Macbeth.
Paul D. Keane
Co-founder, The Kent State Collection
Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library, Manuscripts and Archives
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