Title: A great idea at the time
Description: Explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age.
Subjects: Books and reading, Canon (Literature), Economic aspects of Books and reading, Great books of the Western World, History, History and criticism, Humanistic Education, Intellectual life, Popular culture, Social aspects of Books and reading, Social aspects of Humanistic education, Great books of the Western world, New York Times reviewed, Social aspects, Economic aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century