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Conjurers, cranks, provincials, and antediluvians : the off-modern in American history / Jackson Lears ; edited by Charlie Riggs.
Van Pelt Library E169.1 .L4783 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lears, T. J. Jackson, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- National characteristics, American.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xlii, 456 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "The essays collected here, written over the course of over forty years, are absorbing reading for anyone interested in American history, culture, or intellectual life and provide models of an engaged critic at work on topics and figures both high and low. Offering compelling lenses on historical subjects while setting contemporary culture in rich historical perspective, the essays bridge the gap between history and social commentary and afford a sweeping view of the changing intellectual scene from 1977 to the present." -- Adapted from publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Foreword. Jackson Lears and the off-modern temper / Charlie Riggs
- Introduction. Writing history in late imperial America / Jackson Lears
- One. Conjurers. The artist and the adman (1986)
- Playing with money (1995)
- The magicians of money (2005)
- The thought experiment (2007)
- Aquarius rising (2018)
- Two. Cranks. The man who knew too much (1995)
- When Jesus was a democrat (2006)
- The usefulness of cranks (2009)
- A boy's own story (2011)
- I figured what the hell (2018)
- Three. Provincials. A critic's double image (1977)
- A matter of taste (1989)
- Roads not taken (2012)
- What we don't talk about when we talk about Russian hacking (2018)
- Orthodoxy of the elites (2021)
- Four. Antediluvians. In defense of Henry Adams (1983)
- Revolutionary ware (1996)
- Looking backward (1998)
- The radicalism of tradition (2000)
- Same old new atheism (2011)
- Get happy!!! (2013).
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0300267142
- 9780300267143
- OCLC:
- 1405842348
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