Masscult and Midcult_ Essays Against the American Grain - Dwight MacDonald [159]
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Introduction © 2011 by Louis Menand
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:
Macdonald, Dwight.
Masscult and midcult : essays against the American grain / by Dwight Macdonald ; edited by John Summers ; introduction by Louis Menand.
p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)
ISBN 978-1-59017-447-0 (alk. paper)
1. Popular culture—United States. 2. Mass media—Social aspects—United States. 3. United States—Intellectual life. 4. United States—Civilization—1970– 5. Civilization, Western. 6. Social change—United States. I. Summers, John, 1971– II. Title.
E169.12.M13 2011
306.0973—dc23
2011016632
eISBN 978-1-59017-468-5
v1.0
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