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How to Hunt the Sasquatch

How to Hunt the Sasquatch

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Feb 07, 2024
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The image portrays a large, furry, brown bigfoot holding a magnifying glass and examining footprints in the dirt.

Why do Americans need Bigfoot?

This question propels John O’Connor’s “Secret History of Bigfoot,” a farrago of participatory journalism, anthropological speculation, pop-culture parentheticals and broadsides against Donald Trump that often seems stuck together by sap and tar. And is none the worse for it.

O’Connor, a journalism professor who has written a…

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