Icons of American Popular Culture: From P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez

By Robert Cottrell

Book Overview

Traces the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, and ten chapters, each revolving around the lives of two individuals who are in some way emblematic of their times, this provides a window on the social, economic, and political history of US democracy from the antebellum period to the present.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765622998
• ISBN13: 9780765622990
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"