{"product_id":"american-studies","title":"American Studies","description":"From the bestselling author of The Metaphysical Club, brilliant illuminations of America yesterday and today.\n\nAt 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 presented to the public.\n\nLike 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 and about the reasons successful ideas insinuate themselves into the culture at large. From one of our leading thinkers and critics, known both for his \"sly wit and reportorial high-jinks [and] clarity and rigor\" (The Nation), these essays are incisive, surprising, and impossible to put down.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374104344\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0374104344.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Menand, Louis\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516658720826,"sku":"DBV.0374104344.VG","price":7.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0374104344-0.jpg?v=1783748009","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/american-studies","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}