{"product_id":"american-studies-paperback","title":"American Studies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouis Menand\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and William Paley's CBS. He uncovers the connection between Larry Flynt's \u003ci\u003eHustler\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. And he lends an ear to Al Gore in the White House as the Starr Report is finally presented to the public. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike his critically acclaimed bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Metaphysical Club, American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e), these essays are incisive, surprising, and impossible to put down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouis Menand\u003c\/b\u003e is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\u003ci\u003e The Metaphysical Club\u003c\/i\u003e and Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 306\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724103225407,"sku":"9780374529000","price":31.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/501f9e1fb7345e2af07d5e846cfa2465.webp?v=1765101496","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/american-studies-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}