Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger

Marchand, Philip

ISBN 10: 089919947X / ISBN 13: 9780899199474

Published by Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1989

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8vo, 320 pp.

Seller Inventory # 058248

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger
• Publisher: Ticknor & Fields, New York
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089919947X
• ISBN 13: 9780899199474
• Binding: softcover
• Illustrator: Illus. with photos
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cultural Studies

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Synopsis

Traces the life of the "media guru," contrasts his academic life in Toronto with the glitzy world of New York media, and examines the major themes of his writings

Review

" The best--I might say the only good--pré cis of McLuhan's thought I have ever read." -- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

" Beautifully written. . . . brings instant recognition of that weird, exhilarating vortex of ideas that McLuhan meant to us. . ." -- "Globe and Mail"

& quot; The best--I might say the only good--pr& eacute; cis of McLuhan's thought I have ever read.& quot; -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

& quot; Beautifully written. . . . brings instant recognition of that weird, exhilarating vortex of ideas that McLuhan meant to us. . .& quot; -- Globe and Mail

"The best--I might say the only good--precis of McLuhan's thought I have ever read."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"

"Beautifully written. . . . brings instant recognition of that weird, exhilarating vortex of ideas that McLuhan meant to us. . ."--"Globe and Mail"