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Difficult reputations : collective memories of the evil, inept, and controversial / Gary Alan Fine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fine, Gary Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scandals.
- History.
- United States--Historiography.
- United States.
- Historiography.
- Celebrities--United States--Biography--History and criticism.
- Celebrities.
- Popular culture--United States--History.
- Popular culture.
- Scandals--United States--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 267 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- We take reputations for granted. Believing in the bad and the good natures of our notorious or illustrious forebears is part of our shared national heritage. Yet we are largely ignorant of how such reputations came to be, who was instrumental in creating them, and why. Even less have we considered how villains, just as much as heroes, have helped our society define its values. Presenting essays on Fatty Arbuckle, Herman Melville, Benedict Arnold, Warren Harding, John Brown, Sinclair Lewis, Henry Ford, and Vladimir Nabokov, Gary Fine explores the complex roles in culture and history that difficult reputations play.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226249409
- 0226249417
- OCLC:
- 44516790
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