{"product_id":"culture-as-history-isbn-9781588340511","title":"Culture as History","description":"With amazing creativity, clarity, and wit, Warren Susman (1927-1985) takes us on a provocative tour of the highlights of American culture. By looking at all types of 20th-century culture—highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow—Susman shows how culture itself has become a battleground for competing visions of American life. Fourteen essays include such topics as the nature of American conservatism, the cultural contradictions of a consumer society, and the role of the urban experience in the development of American culture.“The book does provide a good sense of many of Susman’s concerns and virtues: his attentiveness to the ways in which Americans have used and abused their past, his ability to combine a deeply radical sensibility with an appreciation of the conservative tradition, and his fine grasp of the ambivalence with which Americans greeted modernity in the first half of the 20th-century.”—Robert Westbrook, professor of History, University of Rochester, from \u003ci\u003eReviews in American History\u003c\/i\u003eWARREN SUSMAN (1927-1985) was a professor of history at Rutgers University.Fourteen essays by Warren Susman explore 20th-century American culture, including American conservatism, consumer society, and the urban experience.","brand":"Smithsonian Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302319804645,"sku":"NP9781588340511","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781588340511.jpg?v=1767724356","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/culture-as-history-isbn-9781588340511","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}