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306.0954799 NEW Of umbrellas, goddesses, and dreams : essays on Goan culture and society | 306.0973 JOH Everything bad is good for you : how today's popular culture is actually making us smarter | 306.0973 LUC Time to start thinking : America and the spectre of decline | 306.0973 MAC Masscult and midcult : essays against the American grain | 306.0973 PUT Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community | 306.0973 RIT McDonaldization : the reader | 306.0973 RIT Mcdonaldization of society |
Includes bibliographical references.
A New York Review Books Original An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America's susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and good for you and are not. He dubbed this phenomenon "Midcult" and he attacked it not only on aesthetic but on political grounds. Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free. This new selection of Macdonald's finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of The Baffler, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever.
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