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The Stammering Century
de Seldes, Gilbert
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good with no dust jacket; Hinges cracked, boards worn.
- Librería
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: John Day. Good with no dust jacket; Hinges cracked, boards worn.. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. A title about 19th century fringe religious movements. Navy cloth. xviii, 414 pp, index. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .
Sinopsis
Gilbert Seldes (1893–1970), the younger brother of famed foreign correspondent and investigative journalist George Seldes, was an influential American journalist, writer, and cultural critic, noted for championing the popular arts. Born into the Jewish agricultural community of Alliance Colony, New Jersey, to philosophical anarchist parents of Russian Jewish descent, he attended Philadelphia’s prestigious Central High School and graduated from Harvard University, where he became friends with e. e. cummings and John Dos Passos. After working as a newspaper reporter in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and as a war correspondent in England during World War I, he joined the staff of The Dial and became the New York correspondent for T. S. Eliot’s The Criterion . In 1923, however, he went to Paris to write a book in praise of popular culture. The result, The Seven Lively Arts , appeared the following year to both considerable acclaim and criticism for its celebration of the likes of Al Jolson over John Barrymore and Charlie Chaplin over Cecil B. DeMille. In Paris, Seldes met and married Alice Wadhams Hall; the couple would have two children, Timothy, a literary agent, and Marian, a Tony Award–winning actor. Seldes later wrote columns for The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire , adapted Lysistrata and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Broadway, made historical documentary films, wrote radio scripts, and became the first director of television for CBS and the founding dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His other many books of cultural criticism and social analysis include The Years of the Locust (1932), The Movies Come from America (1937), The Great Audience (1950), and The Public Arts (1956). Seldes also published a novel, The Wings of the Eagle (1929), and, under the name Foster Johns, two books of detective stories. Greil Marcus is the author of The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice , Lipstick Traces , and other books; with Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America . In recent years he has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, the New School University, and the University of Minnesota. He was born in San Francisco and lives in Oakland.
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- Librería
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 36448
- Título
- The Stammering Century
- Autor
- Seldes, Gilbert
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good with no dust jacket; Hinges cracked, boards worn.
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- John Day
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1928
- Palabras clave
- RELIGIOUS Revivalism, Fringe Religious Movements, 19th Century Religious Movements, 19th Century Religious Movements
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Religion; American History;
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