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American studies / Louis Menand.
Van Pelt Library E169.1 .M5457 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Menand, Louis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- United States.
- Intellectual life.
- United States--Civilization--20th century.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 306 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
- Summary:
- At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Menand has an original point to make. 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.
- Contents:
- William James and the Case of the Epileptic Patient 3
- The Principles of Oliver Wendell Holmes 31
- T. S. Eliot and the Jews 54
- Richard Wright: The Hammer and the Nail 76
- The Long Shadow of James B. Conant 91
- The Last Emperor: William S. Paley 112
- A Friend Writes: The Old New Yorker 125
- Norman Mailer in His Time 146
- Life in the Stone Age 162
- The Popist: Pauline Kael 180
- Christopher Lasch's Quarrel with Liberalism 198
- Lust in Action: Jerry Falwell and Larry Flynt 221
- Laurie Anderson's United States 239
- The Mind of Al Gore 244
- The Reluctant Memorialist: Maya Lin 265.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-306).
- ISBN:
- 0374104344
- OCLC:
- 49225982
- Online:
- Publisher description
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