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In this dazzling new book, cultural critic and historian Peter Conrad tells the story of the spectacular rise and subsequent waning of American influence across the world since 1945. Politics, war and commerce form the inevitable backdrop to his tale, but Conrad also treats us to a kaleidoscopic presentation of America’s unstoppable creativity: its output of great, good and enjoyably bad art, of jeans and jazz, fast food and fridges, space travel, comic books and motorbikes, technologies and therapies, along with the heroic, erotic or violent cinematic visions that have Americanized even our dreams.
Table of Contents
1. Looking to America · 2. A Coming of Age · 3. ‘The Meaning of America’ 324 ‘Have We Any Friends?’ · 5. Prosperity or Tragedy · 6. ‘Master of the Earth’ · 7. American Girls in Italy and Elsewhere · 8. Free-Enterprise Art · 9. Americanophilia · 10. On the Roads · 11. ‘Americanize Yourselves!’ · 12. Little America · 13. Astronauts and Assassins · 14. ‘I Want it to Come HERE!’ · 15. Nether Americas · 16. B-Day and Other Invasions · 17. Dialogues with Consumer Products · 18. The Campaign to Free America · 19. ‘Why Do They Hate Us?’ · 20. ‘Thanks, America’ · Acknowledgments, Index
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Conrad provides an entertaining and informative insight into America's seductive appeal. --The Sunday Times, Ian Critchley
This is the true outline of our times. --Observer
Thought-provoking ... enjoyable. --Times Literary Supplement
Conrad is one of a glittering generation of Australians cast on to the seas of world culture in the 1960s. --Observer
Conrad unrolls the 20th century like a giant canvas and takes us on a provocative, enjoyable romp through its quarrels, rivalries and vanities ... an absorbing and highly accessible book. Conrad is a gifted reader of the hidden codes that reveal a culture, a light-touch critic who tells his story well ... an affectionate, comprehensive survey of the art and popular culture of a century. --The Irish Times
A magisterial story, never before told in such an intelligent and, essentially, sympathetic manner. --Prospect
About the Author
Peter Conrad is the author of over twenty books, including Creation, How the World Was Won, and Verdi and/or Wagner.
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- PublisherThames and Hudson Ltd
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0500252084
- ISBN 13 9780500252086
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
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