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• Title : Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain (New York Review Books Classics)
• Author : Dwight Macdonald
• Rating : 4.84 (555 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-12-19
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 320 Pages
• Asin : 159017447X
• Language : English

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Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free.

This new selection of Macdonald’s finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of The Baffler, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. A New York Review Books Original

An 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. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever.

No modern American prose writer of consequence ever postured less: compared with him, Mary McCarthy is on stilts, Gore Vidal grasps a pouncet-box, and Norman Mailer is from Mars in a silver suit. The quality of his essays is in direct ratio totheir ambitiousness.” —Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post"Dwight Macdonald'sreal legacy lies in the series of unforgiving, inflammatory and ferociously witty essays he wrote during the 50s, 60s and 70s. “He was a radical, he was a conservative, he was compassionate, he was scathing. He had exquisite taste in many a literary matter. But his transcendental virtue, that unique quality which sets him far apart from all other literary figures for whom one ca

and Robert M. He is the author of Discovering Modernism, The Metaphysical Club, American Studies, and The Marketplace of Ideas. Dwight Macdonald (1906–1982) was born in New York City and educated at Exeter and Yale. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. On graduating from college, he enrolled in Macy’s executive training program, but soon left towork for Henry Luce at Time and Fortune, quitting in 1936 because of cuts that had been made to an article he had written criticizing U.S. From 1937 to 1943, Macdonald was an editorof Partisan Review and in 1944, he started a journal of his own, Politics, whose contrib