Culture as History Paperback by Warren I. Susman

Product Details

• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (2003-02-17)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 352 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781588340511
• Item Weight: 419.58 grams
• Dimensions: 8.97 x 6.07 x 0.73 cm

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 culture—highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow—Susman 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.

About the Author

WARREN SUSMAN (1927-1985) was a professor of history at Rutgers University.