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How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere

How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere

by PeterConrad (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

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Synopsis

In this dazzling new book, cultural critic and historian Peter Conrad tells the story of the spectacular rise and subsequent waning of American influence across the world since 1945. Politics, war and commerce form the inevitable backdrop to his tale, but Conrad also treats us to a kaleidoscopic presentation of America's unstoppable creativity: its output of great, good and enjoyably bad art, of jeans and jazz, fast food and fridges, space travel, comic books and motorbikes, technologies and therapies, along with the heroic, erotic or violent cinematic visions that have Americanized even our dreams.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 06 Oct 2014
ISBN 10: 0500252084
ISBN 13: 9780500252086
Book Overview: An exhilarating, provocative and hugely ambitious cultural history of America which skilfully combines analysis of cinema, popular culture and consumer culture with politics and international affairs

Media Reviews
'Conrad is stunningly well-informed, compulsively allusive and equipped with the kind of imagination that transforms the base metal of history into pure gold' - Observer
'Marvellous ... sparkling with arresting vignettes - a testament to forensic research' - Independent
'Conrad unrolls the 20th century like a giant canvas and takes us on a provocative, enjoyable romp through its quarrels, rivalries and vanities ... an absorbing and highly accessible book ... an affectionate, comprehensive survey of the art and popular culture of a century' - The Irish Times
'Very fine ... vastly detailed and immensely subtle' - The Glasgow Herald
'A magisterial story, never before told in such an intelligent and, essentially, sympathetic manner' - Prospect
Author Bio
Peter Conrad taught English literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1973 to 2011. He has written more than twenty books, including How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere; Creation: Artists, Gods & Origins; At Home in Australia; and Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the Twentieth Century, all published by Thames & Hudson.