A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books - Brossura

Beam, Alex

 
9781586487768: A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books

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A witty history of an unlikely literary fad and an American pop culture phenomenon of the 1950s and early 1960s examines the overwhelming popularity of the Great Books of Western Civilization and how and why they rose to and fell out of fashion.

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Alex Beam is an award-winning columnist for the Boston Globe. His writing has also appeared in theAtlantic, Slate, the New York Times and many other magazines. The author ofGracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America’s Premier Mental Hospital, and of two novels, he lives in Boston.

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ISBN 10:  1586484877 ISBN 13:  9781586484873
Casa editrice: Public Affairs, 2009
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