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<div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The following appeared on </span><a href="http://BostonGlobe.com" class="">BostonGlobe.com</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">: </span><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/19/metro/leo-marx-pioneering-professor-writer-american-studies-dies-102/?s_campaign=8315" class="">Leo
Marx, pioneering professor and writer in American studies, dies at 102</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span></font></div>
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<span class="html-render"><font face="Arial" class="">In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Garden-Technology-Pastoral-America/dp/019513351X?asin=019513351X&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1" class="" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 199); z-index: 1; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">his
book</a> “The Machine in the Garden,” which helped propel and inform academia’s then-burgeoning American studies field, Leo Marx began by noting that “the pastoral ideal has been used to define the meaning of America ever since the age of discovery.”</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">The reason this ideal “has not yet lost its hold” on the nation’s collective imagination “is clear enough,” he added in his 1964 book, which evolved from his Harvard doctoral dissertation. “The ruling motive of the
good shepherd … was to withdraw from the great world and begin a new life in a fresh, green landscape.”</span></p>
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<span class="html-render"><font face="Arial" class="">A professor so thoroughly engaged with his students that he took delight when, on occasion, one nudged him aside to offer an alternative view, Dr. Marx was 102 when he died March 8 in his Jamaica Plain home.</font></span></p>
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