My Pilgrim's Progress by George Ws Trow

My Pilgrim's Progress by George Ws Trow

Original, provocative and possibly prophetic.-- The New York Times

When his classic Within the Context of No Context was first published, George W. S. Trow parsed television's overwhelming dominance over America's consciousness. In My Pilgrim's Progress, he returns with a provocative tour of politics and the media to show how 1950 got to be 1998.

The son of a tabloid journalist, Trow was raised in the Deepest Roosevelt Aesthetic, and found himself seduced by the ordinaryness of the Eisenhower era. It was a time when the Old World was giving way to the New. Perusing The New York Times of February 1950, he gives us America at the peak of its power, with its politicians and celebrities (and the nearly hesitant advent of television) and the fresh terror of the H-bomb. At turns a cultural history, a eulogy, and a provocative commentary on contemporary America, My Pilgrim's Progress confirms Trow's place as one of our most brilliant and incisive social critics.

George W. S. Trow lives in Columbia Country, New York and Texas.

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ISBN 13	9780375701382
ISBN 10	0375701389
Title	My Pilgrim's Progress
Author	George Ws Trow
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-05-02
Number of pages	288
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