Crabtree's Collection Old Books: Culture
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The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste.
NY, HarperCollins, (1990). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. From America's foremost authorities on pop culture, the Sterns give us the first complete guide to the world of the tacky,. outre, and outlandish. A witty and comprehensive tribute to the classic and fabled examples of American kitsch.
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USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 2305]
Catalogue: Culture
A Genteel Endeavor: American culture and politics in the Gilded Age.
Stanford, CA, Stanford Univ Press, 1971. VG in G DJ. 20th century critics Van Wyck Brooks, Mencken, and Parrington blamed the genteel tradition for inhibiting the development of. a realistic, indigenous American literature and a vigorous national politics. Gentility, once an ideal, became for them symbolilc of all that had to be exorcised from American life. Since that day it has blamed the interpreters. Purple binding, some fading to the lavender DJ.
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USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 39 | £UK 33.25 | JP¥ 6484]
Catalogue: Culture
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