
Culture as History
The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century
Warren I. Susman
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Description
With amazing creativity, clarity, and wit, Warren Susman (1927-1985) takes us on a provocative tour of the highlights of American culture. By looking at all types of 20th-century culture—highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow—Susman shows how culture itself has become a battleground for competing visions of American life. Fourteen essays include such topics as the nature of American conservatism, the cultural contradictions of a consumer society, and the role of the urban experience in the development of American culture.
Product Details
Publisher | Smithsonian Books |
Publish Date | February 17, 2003 |
Pages | 352 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781588340511 |
Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.1 X 0.7 inches | 0.9 pounds |
About the Author
WARREN SUSMAN (1927-1985) was a professor of history at Rutgers University.
Reviews
“The book does provide a good sense of many of Susman’s concerns and virtues: his attentiveness to the ways in which Americans have used and abused their past, his ability to combine a deeply radical sensibility with an appreciation of the conservative tradition, and his fine grasp of the ambivalence with which Americans greeted modernity in the first half of the 20th-century.”—Robert Westbrook, professor of History, University of Rochester, from Reviews in American History
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