Conjurers, Cranks, Provincials, and Antediluvians: The Off-Modern in American History (Lears Jackson)(Pevná vazba)

The best essays from America's premier cultural historian Jackson Lears has been hailed as "America's premier cultural historian," the "dean of American cultural history," and "one of the few pre-eminent historians of our time." Well known for his elegant, daring scholarship on topics such as antimodernism, advertising, and luck, Lears has also been a critic and essayist whose public-facing writings--published in journals such as the New Republic, The Nation, the London Review of Books, and the New York Review of Books--have explored a variety of subjects and themes, both contemporary and historical, from modern environmentalism to liberal arts education, from the plastics industry to the happiness industry, from Theodore Roosevelt to Seymour Hersh, from Van Wyck Brooks to Anne Applebaum. The essays collected here, written over the course of
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