Author: Dwight Macdonald
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578065332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A representative selection of interviews with one of the most acute observers of American politics, society, and culture in the twentieth century
Interviews with Dwight Macdonald
Author: Dwight Macdonald
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578065332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A representative selection of interviews with one of the most acute observers of American politics, society, and culture in the twentieth century
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578065332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A representative selection of interviews with one of the most acute observers of American politics, society, and culture in the twentieth century
Masscult and Midcult
Author: Dwight Macdonald
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 159017447X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A New York Review Books Original An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America’s susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and good for you and are not. He dubbed this phenomenon “Midcult” and he attacked it not only on aesthetic but on political grounds. Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free. This new selection of Macdonald’s finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of The Baffler, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 159017447X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A New York Review Books Original An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America’s susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and good for you and are not. He dubbed this phenomenon “Midcult” and he attacked it not only on aesthetic but on political grounds. Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free. This new selection of Macdonald’s finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of The Baffler, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever.
A Rebel In Defense Of Tradition
Author: Michael Wreszin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This book is the quintessential story of an American awakening. It is the tale of an upper-middle-class white male, schooled in the elite institutions of the WASP establishment, who managed to jettison all of the prejudices and provincialism of his class and through the force of his inquiring mind, to become one of the most penetrating critics of mid-century American civilization.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This book is the quintessential story of an American awakening. It is the tale of an upper-middle-class white male, schooled in the elite institutions of the WASP establishment, who managed to jettison all of the prejudices and provincialism of his class and through the force of his inquiring mind, to become one of the most penetrating critics of mid-century American civilization.
Dwight MacDonald and the Politics Circle
Author: Gregory D. Sumner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801430206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Sumner finds the clearest expression of Macdonald's creative power and of the political thinking that would eventually bridge the "Old Left" and the "New".
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801430206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Sumner finds the clearest expression of Macdonald's creative power and of the political thinking that would eventually bridge the "Old Left" and the "New".
A Moral Temper
Author: Dwight Macdonald
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Here in one volume is a comprehensive selection of letters from the correspondence of one of the most astute observers of American politics, society, and culture in the 20th century.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Here in one volume is a comprehensive selection of letters from the correspondence of one of the most astute observers of American politics, society, and culture in the 20th century.
Politics Past
Author: Dwight Macdonald
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Responsibility of Peoples
Author: Dwight Macdonald
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Discriminations
Author: Dwight Macdonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780670274376
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780670274376
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A Wilderness of Error
Author: Errol Morris
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143123696
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Soon to be an FX Docuseries from Emmy® Award-Winning Producer Marc Smerling (The Jinx) featuring the author Errol Morris! Academy Award–winning filmmaker Errol Morris examines one of the most notorious and mysterious murder trials of the twentieth century In this profoundly original meditation on truth and the justice system, Errol Morris—a former private detective and director of The Thin Blue Line—delves deeply into the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case. MacDonald, whose pregnant wife and two young daughters were brutally murdered in 1970, was convicted of the killings in 1979 and remains in prison today. The culmination of an investigation spanning over twenty years and a masterly reinvention of the true-crime thriller, A Wilderness of Error is a shocking book because it shows that everything we have been told about the case is deeply unreliable and that crucial elements of case against MacDonald are simply not true.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143123696
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Soon to be an FX Docuseries from Emmy® Award-Winning Producer Marc Smerling (The Jinx) featuring the author Errol Morris! Academy Award–winning filmmaker Errol Morris examines one of the most notorious and mysterious murder trials of the twentieth century In this profoundly original meditation on truth and the justice system, Errol Morris—a former private detective and director of The Thin Blue Line—delves deeply into the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case. MacDonald, whose pregnant wife and two young daughters were brutally murdered in 1970, was convicted of the killings in 1979 and remains in prison today. The culmination of an investigation spanning over twenty years and a masterly reinvention of the true-crime thriller, A Wilderness of Error is a shocking book because it shows that everything we have been told about the case is deeply unreliable and that crucial elements of case against MacDonald are simply not true.
My Past and Thoughts
Author: Aleksandr Herzen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description