Culture as History: the Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century
Culture as History: the Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century by Warren Susman
English | October 17, 2012 | ISBN: 1588340511, 039453364X | True EPUB | 352 pages | 3.2 MB
English | October 17, 2012 | ISBN: 1588340511, 039453364X | True EPUB | 352 pages | 3.2 MB
Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the social, political, and cultural face of America in this century. Probing a rich panoply of images from the mass media and advertising, testing prevalent intellectual and economic theories, linking the revolutions in communications and technology to the rise of a new pantheon of popular heroes. Susman documents and analyzes the process through which the older, Puritan-republican, producer-capitalist culture has given way to the leisure-oriented, consumer society we now inhabit: the culture of abundance.