Ashby, LeRoy: With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830.(Book review)

From: History: Review of New Books | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Patterson, Robert L. | Copyright information

Ashby, LeRoy With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830 Lexington: University Press of Kentucky 688 pp., $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-2397-4 Publication Date: May 2006

LeRoy Ashby, Regents Professor of History at Washington State University, previously authored political biographies of William Jennings Bryan and Senator Frank Church but since 1999 has turned his attention toward popular culture, an interest that he formerly viewed as a peripheral...

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