American Studies

Name: American Studies
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ISBN: 9780374529000

ISBN-10: 0374529000

ISBN-13: 9780374529000

Edition: N/A

Authors: Louis Menand

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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…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 11/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


William James and the Case of the Epileptic Patient


The Principles of Oliver Wendell Holmes


T. S. Eliot and the Jews


Richard Wright: The Hammer and the Nail


The Long Shadow of James B. Conant


The Last Emperor: William S. Paley


A Friend Writes: The Old New Yorker


Norman Mailer in His Time


Life in the Stone Age


The Popist: Pauline Kael


Christopher Lasch's Quarrel with Liberalism


Lust in Action: Jerry Falwell and Larry Flynt


Laurie Anderson's United States


The Mind of Al Gore


The Reluctant Memorialist: Maya Lin


Notes