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

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

Today, the classics written by the proverbial dead white men are cannon fodder in the culture wars, but in the 1950s and 1960s they were a pop culture phenomenon. Beam explores the Great Books mania, in this strangely poignant portrait of America on the threshold of the television age.