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A Great Idea At The Time The Rise Fall And Curious Afterlife Of The Great Books Illustrated Edition Alex Beam

Name: A Great Idea At The Time The Rise Fall And Curious Afterlife Of The Great Books Illustrated Edition Alex Beam
SKU: BELL-1396012
Price: 31.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.8 (14 reviews)

SKU: BELL-1396012

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A Great Idea At The Time The Rise Fall And Curious Afterlife Of The Great Books Illustrated Edition Alex Beam instant download after payment.

Publisher: PublicAffairs

File Extension: PDF

File size: 1.97 MB

Pages: 257

Author: Alex Beam

ISBN: 9780786726981, 9781586484873, 1586484877, 0786726989

Language: English

Year: 2008

Edition: illustrated edition

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A Great Idea At The Time The Rise Fall And Curious Afterlife Of The Great Books Illustrated Edition Alex Beam by Alex Beam 9780786726981, 9781586484873, 1586484877, 0786726989 instant download after payment.

Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial В“dead white men,вЂќ are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago, began as an educational movement, and evolved into a successful marketing idea. Why did a million American households buy books by Hippocrates and Nicomachus from door-to-door salesmen? And how and why did the great books fall out of fashion?

In A Great Idea at the Time Alex Beam explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age. Populated with memorable characters, A Great Idea at the Time will leave readers asking themselves: Have I read LucretiusвЂ™s De Rerum Natura lately? If not, why not?