Culture as history
Subtitle: the transformation of American society in the twentieth century
By: Warren I. Susman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: United States -- Civilization -- 20th century; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: "Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes Us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the social, political, and cultural face of America in this century. Probing a rich panoply of images from the mass media and advertising, testing prevalent intellectual and economic theories, linking the revolutions in communications and technology to the rise of a new pantheon of popular heroes, Susman documents and analyzes the process through which the older, Puritan-republican, producer-capitalist culture has given way to the leisure-oriented, consumer society we now inhabit the culture of abundance."--Publishers description.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 291-309.
Includes index.