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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert B. PippinPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9780300172065ISBN 10: 0300172060 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 31 January 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews'Robert Pippin's study of three great Westerns is a fine meditation on the place of heroism in democracy and the ambiguous relationship between legend and history in the making of heroes. It can stand with the best recent books on the Western as a genre, but it is driven by a thought all its own: the difficulty of the search for order, and the elusive 'possibility of an American politics'.' (David Bromwich, Yale University) 'I loved it.' (Clive Sinclair, Times Literary Supplement) Let me say straightaway that it is a very thoughtful, observant book, well worth the time for any reader who takes Hawks, Ford, and the Western seriously. -The New Republic This book is an important read in both form and substance for all cultural historians. -D.P. Franklin, Choice A trenchant and illuminating study of three great Westerns and a convincing case for their importance both to political psychology and to our own self-understanding as American citizens. -C. D. C. Reeve, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Robert Pippin's study of three great Westerns is a fine meditation on the place of heroism in democracy and the ambiguous relationship between legend and history in the making of heroes. It can stand with the best recent books on the Western as a genre, but it is driven by a thought all its own: the difficulty of the search for order, and the elusive 'possibility of an American politics.' -David Bromwich, Yale University Pippin's marvelous book is a more than worthy successor to the classic essays on the Western by Andre Bazin and Robert Warshow. This volume is remarkable for its clarity and depth of argument. -George Wilson, University of Southern California Author InformationRobert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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