
A New York Review Books OriginalAn 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 goo...
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics; Main edition (October 11, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 159017447X
ISBN-13: 978-1590174470
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.7 x 8 inches
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If you are interested in the literature, politics and history of the USA from the 1930's through the 1960's , you've probably heard of Dwight Macdonald. However, I suspect if you're under 70 you probably haven't read him. Well if you haven't, you are...
nd 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.