TTC Video - Great American Bestsellers: The Books That Shaped America (2010)

Best-selling books have played a critical role in influencing the tastes and purchasing habits of American readers for more than 100 years. Weekly best-seller lists appear in various national newspapers. Nationwide reading clubs help propel books (and authors) into mass popularity. Strategic marketing campaigns help embed the importance of a particular work in the American public's consciousness.
But there is more to America's great best-selling books than the sales figures they rake in. American bestsellers also offer us ways to appreciate and understand particular periods of American culture.
The 24 lectures of Great American Bestsellers: The Books That Shaped America give you a pointed look at key best-selling works and their places within the greater fabric of American cultural history. Guided by award-winning Professor Peter Conn of the University of Pennsylvania, you explore representative bestsellers at various stages of American history, from the first book published in the English-speaking New World to the blockbuster authors who dominate the 21st-century publishing industry.
The result is an expert look at the evolution of American culture—its tastes, its hopes, its dreams—through the unique lens of the books that have captivated its readers at various points in American history.


professor : Peter Conn
production land: USA
Run time: ~24 x 30 min

00. The Professor's Biography
01. Why Do Bestsellers Matter?
02. The Bay Psalm Book
03. Common Sense
04. The Last of the Mohicans
05. Uncle Tom's Cabin
06. Ragged Dick
07. Little Women
08. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
09. The Virginian
10. The House of Mirth
11. The Jungle
12. Main Street
13. The Maltese Falcon
14. The Good Earth
15. Gone with the Wind
16. How to Win Friends and Influence People
17. The Grapes of Wrath
18. Native Son
19. The Catcher in the Rye
20. To Kill a Mockingbird
21. Catch-22
22. The Woman Warrior
23. John Adams
24. Recent Bestsellers

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