A Great Idea at the Time
The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
By Alex Beam
(PublicAffairs, Paperback, 9781586487768, 245pp.)
Publication Date: October 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback, Hardcover
Categories: Social History, Books & Reading, United States - 20th Century
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Description
Today, the classics written by the proverbial dead white men are cannon fodder in the culture wars, but in the 1950s and 1960s they were a pop culture phenomenon. Beam explores the Great Books mania, in this strangely poignant portrait of America on the threshold of the television age.
About the Author
Alex Beam is an award-winning columnist for the Boston Globe. His writing has also appeared in the Atlantic, Slate, the New York Times and many other magazines. The author of Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America’s Premier Mental Hospital, and of two novels, he lives in Boston.
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