Against the American Grain: Essays of the Effects of Mass Culture by John Simon, Dwight Macdonald

Against the American Grain: Essays of the Effects of Mass Culture

John Simon, Dwight Macdonald

427 pages first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy reflective fast-paced

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Dwight Macdonald focuses on the American pursuit of culture and its ambiguous results. The usual approach to mass culture has been sociological; Macdonald turns to the subject as a man of letters. "I am concerned not so much with the dead sea of m...

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