Masscult and Midcult
Macdonald, Dwight / Summers, John / Menand, Louis
A New York Review Books Original Political radical, trenchant essayist, and impresario of the New York intellectuals, Dwight Macdonald was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters. In his most famous and controversial essay, "Masscult and Midcult, " MacDonald turns his formidable critical attention to what he sees as a new, and potentially catastrophic, development in the history of Western civilization: the influence-...