{"title":"Louis Menand Iii","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"american-studies-book-louis-menand-iii-9780374529000","title":"American Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons for the remarkable commercial successes of William Shawn's \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and William Paley's CBS. He uncovers the connection between Larry Flynt's \u003ci\u003eHustler\u003c\/i\u003e and Jerry Falwell's evangelism, between the atom bomb and the Scholastic Aptitude Test. He locates the importance of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Pauline Kael, Christopher Lasch, and \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. And he lends an ear to Al Gore in the White House as the Starr Report is finally presented to the public.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Like his critically acclaimed bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Metaphysical Club, American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is intellectual and cultural history at its best: game and detached, with a strong curiosity about the political underpinnings of ideas and about the reasons successful ideas insinuate themselves into the culture at large. From one of our leading thinkers and critics, known both for his \"sly wit and reportorial high-jinks [and] clarity and rigor\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e), these essays are incisive, surprising, and impossible to put down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49537415872785,"sku":"GOR003837960","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49607818871057,"sku":"GOR013132339","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50049805484305,"sku":"CIN0374529000G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50890626957585,"sku":"CIN0374529000VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001793052945,"sku":"NIN9780374529000","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374529000.jpg?v=1751436169"},{"product_id":"metaphysical-club-book-louis-menand-iii-9780374528492","title":"The Metaphysical Club","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e staff writer Louis Menand's\u003ci\u003e The Metaphysical Club \u003c\/i\u003eis the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA national bestseller and hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant (Janet Maslin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) book about the creation of modern American thought.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics. The Club was probably in existence for about nine months. No records were kept. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea--an idea about ideas. This book is the story of that idea. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHolmes, James, and Peirce all believed that ideas are not things out there waiting to be discovered but are tools people invent--like knives and forks and microchips--to make their way in the world. They thought that ideas are produced not by individuals, but by groups of individuals--that ideas are social. They do not develop according to some inner logic of their own but are entirely dependent, like germs, on their human carriers and environment. 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