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Contributors | November 10, 2009

Zachary Lazar: IMG Evening's Empire

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Without knowing it, I'd always had two unspoken arrangements with the world. The first was that I would not trouble it with unpleasant conversation... Continue »
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The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (The Haymarket Series)

by Michael Denning

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Encompassing the likes of Orson Welles, Billie Holliday, Duke Ellington, C.L.R. James, and John Dos Passos, THE CULTURAL FRONT is a vivid mural of an extraordinary upheaval in American culture. Michael Denning illuminates the radical movement of artists and intellectuals, activists and workers, which strove to create a genuinely democratic popular culture during the 1930s. 16 photos.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-543) and index.
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ISBN:
9781859841709
Subtitle:
The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century
Author:
Denning, Michael
Publisher:
Verso
Location:
London ;
Subject:
History
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Anthropology - Cultural
Subject:
Popular Culture
Subject:
United States - 20th Century
Subject:
Social conditions
Subject:
Arts, American
Subject:
Arts, Modern
Subject:
United States Social life and customs 1918-1945.
Subject:
Popular Culture - General
Edition Number:
Paperback ed.
Edition Description:
Paperback Paperback
Series:
Haymarket (Paperback)
Series Volume:
DP 91-05
Publication Date:
July 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
556
Dimensions:
8.92x6.05x1.63 in. 1.98 lbs.
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