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Dancing in the Dark (2009)
A Cultural History of the Great Depression
by Morris Dickstein
From Agee to Astaire, Steinbeck to Ellington, the creative energies of the Depression against a backdrop of poverty and economic disaster. In this timely and long-awaited cultural history of the 1930s, Morris Dickstein, whom Norman Mailer called “one of our best and most distinguished critics... (learn more about this book)
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Double Agent (1992)
The Critic and Society
by Morris Dickstein
Double Agent is a watershed in the recent revival of interest in the role of the public critic and intellectual who writes about culture, politics, and the arts for an intelligent general audience. Offering acute portraits of critics both famous and neglected, Dickstein traces the evolution of... (learn more about this book)
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Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (1977)
by Morris Dickstein
During the sixties, says Morris Dickstein, America seemed to be at the gates of Eden--verging on a new way of experiencing life, art, and culture. In this provocative book, he discusses how we reached the gates and why, in the end, they remained closed. Beginning with Allen Ginsberg and the... (learn more about this book)
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Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970
by Morris Dickstein
The twenty-five years after the Second World War were a lively and fertile period for the American novel and an era of momentous transformation in American society. Taking his title from the Kafka parable about the leopards who kept racing into the courtyard of the temple, disrupting the... (learn more about this book)
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A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World
by Morris Dickstein
In a famous passage in The Red and the Black , the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naïve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation.... (learn more about this book)
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (Part 1 of 2)
by Morris Dickstein
<This is part 1 of a 2 part audiobook cassette edition.> Hailed as one of the best books of 2009 by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times , this vibrant portrait of 1930s culture masterfully explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of distressed... (learn more about this book)
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (Part 2 of 2)
by Morris Dickstein
<This is part 2 of a 2 part audiobook cassette edition.> Hailed as one of the best books of 2009 by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times , this vibrant portrait of 1930s culture masterfully explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of distressed... (learn more about this book)
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The Revival of Pragmatism
New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture
by Morris Dickstein
Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism—with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth—lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War. Since the... (learn more about this book)
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