{"product_id":"masscult-and-midcult-dwight-macdonald-9781590174470","title":"Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain","description":"A New York Review Books Original \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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 good for you and 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new selection of Macdonald's finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/i\u003e, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dwight MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 159017447X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590174470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.10w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/23\/2011 pg. 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/08\/2012 pg. 40","brand":"Dwight MacDonald","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44042387194111,"sku":"9781590174470","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_377efa85-7c45-492f-8a07-ec5d0ab2f300.jpg?v=1684961216","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/masscult-and-midcult-dwight-macdonald-9781590174470","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}