Category: Book of the month
For our third ‘book of the month’ recommendation, I decided to choose one that summarizes the evolution of American rock and roll and the music industry since the 80’s till our days. Margaret Olson’s Bon Jovi: America’s Ultimate Band (2013)...
Our book recommendation of the month is Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Image, a critical analysis of cultural attitudes toward reality and its reproduction, and how the American public tends to find more enjoyable unrealistic, fabricated spectacles than facts. Published in...
For our first book of the month recommendation, I picked one of my favorite interdisciplinary essays on the American West as a fundamental pivot in the shaping of American history and national image. Kicking off with the origins of the...