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The Free World
Art and Thought in the Cold War
Louis Menand
2021
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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On Menand’s "The Free World" and Dinerstein’s "The Origins of Cool in Postwar America"
Two differing explorations of post-WWII culture, politics, and ideals.
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Michael J. Kramer
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Society for U.S. Intellectual History
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May 21, 2023
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Freedom for Sale
In the 1950s and 1960s, a new generation of American artists began to think of advertising and commercial imagery as the new avant-garde.
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Fintan O’Toole
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New York Review of Books
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July 1, 2021
Book Review
How Americans Re-Learned to Think After World War II
In ‘The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,’ Louis Menand explores the poetry, music, painting, dance and film that emerged during the Cold War.
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Carlos Lozada
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Washington Post
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April 16, 2021
Book Review
How Americans Lost Their Fervor for Freedom
The New Yorker critic's new book is a sequel of sorts to "The Metaphysical Club."
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Evan Kindley
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The New Republic
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April 14, 2021
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How American Culture Ate the World
A new book explains why Americans know so little about other countries.
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Dexter Fergie
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The New Republic
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March 24, 2022
