{"product_id":"moral-fire-joseph-horowitz-9780520267442","title":"Moral Fire: Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle","description":"Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: \"If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalities-Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Ives-whose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Horowitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520267443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520267442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/22\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.33w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2012","brand":"Joseph Horowitz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064999260415,"sku":"9780520267442","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b38daf9-05d8-484a-9aa6-ba41ce5e5173.jpg?v=1768672466","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/moral-fire-joseph-horowitz-9780520267442","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}