Culture as History The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century,9781588340511

Culture as History The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century

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ISBN13: 9781588340511
ISBN10: 1588340511
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-02-17
Publisher(s): Smithsonian Books
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Summary

With amazing creativity, clarity, and wit, Warren Susman (1927-1985) takes us on a provocative tour of the highlights of American culture. By looking at all types of 20th-century culturehighbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrowSusman shows how culture itself has become a battleground for competing visions of American life. Fourteen essays include such topics as the nature of American conservatism, the cultural contradictions of a consumer society, and the role of the urban experience in the development of American culture.

Author Biography

Warren Susman (1927-1985) was a professor of history at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
American Hieroglyphics: A Note on the Illustrations xvii
Introduction: Toward a History of the Culture of Abundance xix
History as Myth and Ideology
1(50)
History and the American Intellectual: The Uses of a Usable Past
7(20)
The Frontier Thesis and the American Intellectual
27(12)
Uses of the Puritan Past
39(12)
Ideology as Culture
51(48)
The Nature of American Conservatism
57(18)
Socialism and Americanism
75(11)
The Persistence of Reform
86(13)
Culture as History
99(132)
Culture and Civilization: The Nineteen-Twenties
105(17)
Culture Heroes: Ford, Barton, Ruth
122(28)
The Culture of the Thirties
150(34)
Culture and Commitment
184(27)
The People's Fair: Cultural Contradictions of a Consumer Society
211(20)
Transitions and Transformations
231(56)
The City in American Culture
237(15)
Culture and Communications
252(19)
``Personality'' and the Making of Twentieth-Century Culture
271(16)
Afterwords: Past and Present in the Twentieth Century 287(4)
Notes 291(20)
Index 311

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