A Great Idea at the Time 2008

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A witty history of an unlikely literary fad and an American pop culture phenomenon of the 1950s and early 1960s examines the overwhelming popularity of the Great Books of Western Civilization and how and why they rose to and fell out of fashion.

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Books by Alex Beam:

• Gracefully Insane (2001)
• A Great Idea at the Time (2008)