A Great Idea at the Time
- Authors
- Beam, Alex
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Tags
- history , reference
- ISBN
- 9780786726981
- Date
- 2008-11-04T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.19 MB
- Lang
- en
Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial "dead white men," are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen