Jackson Lears
Author of Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920
About the Author
Jackson Lears is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and the editor of Raritan: A Quarterly Review. The author of Fables of Abundance (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history), Something for Nothing, and No Place of Grace, Lears writes for The New York show more Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. He lives in western New Jersey. show less
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Works by Jackson Lears
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (1981) 243 copies
The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History 1880-1980 (1983) — Editor — 51 copies
Raritan — Editor — 3 copies
Raritan Volume 25, Number 2 2 copies
Raritan (XXV: 1) — Editor — 1 copy
Raritan — Editor — 1 copy
Raritan (XXIV:3) — Editor — 1 copy
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- University of Virginia (B.A.)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (M.A.)
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I assume the fact that the book remains in print despite its reliance on largely-abandoned Freudian explanations for social phenomena reflects the interest which the period continues to hold for readers and scholars, and the wide-ranging research Lears presents on the subject. Extensive notes and bibliography.… (more)