The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century

by James Livingston

Book Overview

The World Turned Inside Out explores American thought and culture in the formative moment of the late twentieth century in the aftermath of the fabled Sixties. The overall argument here is that the tendencies and sensibilities we associate with that earlier moment of upheaval decisively shaped intellectual agendas and cultural practices--from the all-volunteer Army to the cartoon politics of Disney movies--in the 1980s and 90s.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742535428
• ISBN13: 9780742535428
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"