John Summers
John Summers writes and lectures widely on American history and culture.
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Masscult and Midcult - Essays Against the American GrainBy Dwight MacDonald Edited by John Summers Introduction by Louis MenandIn Masscult & Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain, first published in 1962, MacDonald turned his formidable critical attention to what he saw as a new, and potentially catastrophic, development in the history of Western civilization: the influence-by turns distorting, destructive, and inadvertently ridiculous-of mass culture on high culture. Category: Essays, Criticism and PhilosophyPublisher: NYRB Classics |
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