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200 14$aThe making of middle/brow culture$b[electronic resource] /$fJoan Shelley Rubin
210   $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc1992
215   $a1 online resource (439 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Self, Culture, and Self-Culture in America; Chapter 2. The ""Higher Journalism"" Realigned: Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van Doren, and Books; Chapter 3. Why Do You Disappoint Yourself?: The Early History of the Book-of-the-Month Club; Chapter 4. Classics and Commercials: John Erskine and ""Great Books""; Chapter 5. Merchant of Light: Will Durant and the Vogue of the ""Outline""; Chapter 6. Information, Please!: Book Programs on Commercial Radio; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
327   $aZPermissions; illustrations
330   $aThe proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, ""outline"" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, the rise of American middlebrow culture, and the values encompassed by it.Rubin centers her discussion on five important expressions of the middlebrow: the founding of the Book-of-the-Month Club; the beginnings of ""great books"" programs; the creation of the New York Herald Tribune's book-review section
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