Attention is given to American culture. Not the culture of WalMart and the cineplex but culture as it is lived closer to the ground like local culture and neighbourhood culture. The focus is on the choices that individuals make about how to shape the fabric of their lives, and a…
Cultural Democracy explores the crisis of our national cultural vitality, as access to the arts becomes increasingly mediated by a handful of corporations and the narrow tastes of wealthy elites. Graves offers the concept of cultural democracy as corrective - an idea with import…
Social inequality in Canada
"In The History of the Future, McPherson explores America in all its beauty and strangeness. He is funny and searching-a joy to read."--Elizabeth Kolbert Praise for Edward McPherson: "Mr. McPherson is an intrepid traveler. a charming and literate companion, and he approaches his…
"In The History of the Future, McPherson explores America in all its beauty and strangeness. He is funny and searching-a joy to read."--Elizabeth Kolbert Praise for Edward McPherson: "Mr. McPherson is an intrepid traveler. a charming and literate companion, and he approaches his…
A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways.