Louis Menand: author of The Metaphysical Club - discusses American Studies. To coincide with the Spotlighted Read of his book The Metaphysical Club Video (Author: Bill Zehme)
Book Review 'The Marketplace of Ideas,' by Louis Menand - The New York Times
From the bestselling author of The Metaphysical Club, brilliant illuminations of America yesterday and today. At 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 New Yorker and William Paley's CBS.
American Studies [Book]
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand (Farrar) - The Pulitzer Prizes
American Studies by Louis Menand
Louis Menand The New York Review of Books
The Making of the New Left
The Free World review: Louis Menand's revelatory new book about some familiar subjects.
Louis Menand The New York Review of Books