\u201cHe wants to believe that Shakespeare wrote all those books, that Lincoln fought the Civil War to free the slaves and the United States fought World War II to rescue the Jews and keep the world safe for democracy, that Jesus and the double feature are coming back. But I\u2019m no Panglossian<\/strong> American.\u201d
\n\u2015 Paul Beatty, The Sellout<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Panglossian comes from Pangloss, the name of a character from Voltaire’s novel Candide, first published in 1759. In the novel, Pangloss is an unpragmatic optimist with an attitude reminiscent of the character Don Quixote. 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