Full name: No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920

Author: Jackson Lears Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780226469706 0226469700

Jackson Lears draws on a wealth of primary sources (sermons, diaries, letters) as well as novels, poems, and essays to explore the origins of turn-of-the-century American antimodernism. He examines the retreat to the exotic, the pursuit of intense physical or spiritual experiences, and the search for cultural self-sufficiency through the Arts and Crafts movement. Lears argues that their antimodern impulse, more pervasive than historians have supposed, was not "simple escapism," but reveals some enduring and recurring tensions in American culture. Similar books: Restless Giant by James T. Patterson The New Empire by Walter LaFeber Grand Expectations by James T. Patterson Rebirth of a Nation by Jackson Lears Culture as History by Warren Susman 1831 by Louis P. Masur From Colony to Superpower by George C. Herring The Perils of Prosperity by William E. Leuchtenburg The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone Waking Giant by David S. Reynolds America, 1908 by Jim Rasenberger The Populist moment by Lawrence Goodwyn Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 by William W. Freehling These Truths by Jill Lepore A Fierce Discontent by Michael McGerr