Round 5: Tossup 13

This author compared his birth to that of a hypothetical Israel Cohen born “under the shadow of the Temple.” Leo Marx used this author’s phrase “two kingdoms of force” to title a chapter in which he reads moments like the smashing of Huck Finn’s raft by a steamboat. This author addressed his actual nieces and “nieces in wish” in a book that quotes from The Song of Roland to help its readers “become pilgrims again.” This author contrasted (*) “thirteenth-century unity” with “twentieth-century multiplicity” in a third-person memoir that describes a visit to the Hall of Machines at the 1900 Paris Exposition, (10[1])where he summed up progress as a clash between “dynamo” and “Virgin.” For 10 points, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is by what historian from a presidential family, who wrote an autobiography about his “education”? ■END■ (10[1])

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