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At each step in his latest journey through American culture history, Menand has an original point to make. Like The Metaphysical Club, American Studies (the second volume in a projected three-volume intellectual history of America) is game and detached, with a strong curiosity about the reasons ideas insinuate themselves into the culture at large. Menand explores the rise and fall of the TV network, the importance of Richard Wright, Pauline Kael, and Rolling Stone, and why we dropped the bomb. He lends an ear to Al Gore in the White House as the Starr Report is presented to the public. And he makes us look more closely at our world and ourselves.
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The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense - economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and shows how changing economic, technological, and social forces put their mark on creations of the mind.
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- De Sasha Senderovich en 05-01-21
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The Metaphysical Club
- De: Louis Menand
- Narrado por: Henry Leyva
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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Hardly a club in the conventional sense, the organization referred to in the title of this superb literary hybrid (part history, part biography, part philosophy) consisted of four members and probably existed for less than nine months.
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The Great American Experiment
- De Victoria en 12-08-03
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The Life of the Mind
- De: Hannah Arendt
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
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Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this work was planned as three volumes that would explore the activities of the mind considered by Arendt to be fundamental. What emerged is a rich, challenging analysis of human mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging.
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- De angela cozea en 11-20-19
De: Hannah Arendt
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The Club
- Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
- De: Leo Damrosch
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
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In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually, the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club". In this captivating audiobook, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters.
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Wonderful survey
- De Tad Davis en 05-10-19
De: Leo Damrosch
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The Need to Be Whole
- De: Wendell Berry
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
- Duración: 19 h y 54 m
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Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others.
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Necessary Reading for These Troubled Times
- De Jane Vandenburgh en 11-05-22
De: Wendell Berry
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre American Studies
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- Paul
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Great, but abridged
Menand is a fantastic writer. This book is a series of profiles of individuals and movements that have shaped American culture. Each chapter draws the reader into the next. I enjoyed this book as much as The Metaphysical Club. The narrator for this volume is far superior to the one used for TMC.
The Audible label says the book is unabridged but it is not. Many chapters are not included. I wrote to Audible and they acknowledged that the book is indeed abridged. Two weeks have passed since I received their acknowledgement and they have not changed the labeling on the site so beware.
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- Dr. D. Adamson
- 09-30-18
Disappointed that this is abridged
My review will echo what others have said. This book is abridged, but did not indicate that on the page where I purchased it. The abridgment is missing the best essays from the book, esp. the chapters on William James and RIchard Wright. I like what is here, and wish for an unabdridged version.
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- Kirk McElhearn
- 10-09-07
Abridged, but doesn't say so
I'm very disappoined - this book is not unabridged, and contains only about half the essays in the "real" book. I was especially disappointed that it doesn't contain Menand's essay about William James, which is what interested me most in this book. Caveat emptor.
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