Popularizing the past: historians, publishers, and readers in postwar America

"Nick Witham investigates how widely popular history books have gotten written, promoted, and institutionalized. Not just a matter of writing style, popular accessibility is also a product of an author's frame of mind, the editor's skill, and the publisher's marketing acumen, amo...

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1. Verfasser: Witham, Nick (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, IL ; London The University of Chicago Press 2023
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Zusammenfassung:"Nick Witham investigates how widely popular history books have gotten written, promoted, and institutionalized. Not just a matter of writing style, popular accessibility is also a product of an author's frame of mind, the editor's skill, and the publisher's marketing acumen, among other factors. Witham has done extensive work not just in historians' archives but in publishers' files. His primary subjects are Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Gerda Lerner, and Howard Zinn--all popular historians who were explicitly concerned with the question of popularity. Collectively, they reveal the cross-influences of popular history writing and American popular culture" --
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:220 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9780226826974
9780226826998

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