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A Great Idea at the Time [electronic resource] : The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beam, Alex.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Books and reading--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Canon (Literature)--History and criticism.
- Education, Humanistic--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Great books of the Western world.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Local Subjects:
- Books and reading--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Books and reading--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Canon (Literature)--History and criticism.
- Education, Humanistic--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Great books of the Western world.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>By the author of the <I>Boston Globe</I> #1 bestseller <I>Gracefully Insane</I>: A wry, witty history of an unlikely literary fad, and of American pop culture in the 1950s and early 1960s.</div>
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Introduction 1; ONE The Headwaters 7; TWO The Odd Couple 23; THREE The Great Books in the Gray City 37; FOUR Great Books Good for You! 57; FIVE The Making of the Books 75; SIX Faster, Pussycat! Sell! Sell! 95; SEVEN Second Verse Not the Same as the First 117; EIGHT The People of the Book 135; NINE Epictetus at the Cash Register: Chicago and Columbia 151 ; TEN Hard Core: St. John's College 165; ELEVEN Among the Bookies 181; TWELVE Dead Books Walking 191; Acknowledgments 203; The (Randomly Annotated) Great Books of the Western World 207 ; Notes on Sources 223; Index 229
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-45994-5
- 9786612459948
- 0-7867-2698-9
- OCLC:
- 299780866
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