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American Studies

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Cultural history with insights into America's past.

American Studies is an ideal read for anyone interested in American cultural history. Through Menand's original perspectives, readers will gain new insights into American icons like William James and T.S. Eliot, as well as discover revealing connections between seemingly disparate aspects of American culture, such as Larry Flynt's Hustler and Jerry Falwell's evangelism. Menand's writing style is known for its clarity and rigor, making this book an engaging and enlightening read for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of American history.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

American Studies

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ISBN: 9780374529000

Description

At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons for the remarkable commercial successes of William Shawn's New Yorker and William Paley's CBS. He uncovers the connection between Larry Flynt's Hustler and Jerry Falwell's evangelism, between the atom bomb and the Scholastic Aptitude Test. He locates the importance of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Pauline Kael, Christopher Lasch, and Rolling Stone magazine. And he lends an ear to Al Gore in the White House as the Starr Report is finally presented to the public.

Like his critically acclaimed bestseller, The Metaphysical Club, American Studies is intellectual and cultural history at its best: game and detached, with a strong curiosity about the political underpinnings of ideas and about the reasons successful ideas insinuate themselves into the culture at large. From one of our leading thinkers and critics, known both for his "sly wit and reportorial high-jinks [and] clarity and rigor" (The Nation), these essays are incisive, surprising, and impossible to put down.


Author: Louis Menand
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 306
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: 01 Nov 2003
 

Cultural history with insights into America's past.

American Studies is an ideal read for anyone interested in American cultural history. Through Menand's original perspectives, readers will gain new insights into American icons like William James and T.S. Eliot, as well as discover revealing connections between seemingly disparate aspects of American culture, such as Larry Flynt's Hustler and Jerry Falwell's evangelism. Menand's writing style is known for its clarity and rigor, making this book an engaging and enlightening read for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of American history.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.