Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity.

The Progressive | January 1, 1996| | Copyright

It is part of my job, as someone who teaches media studies, to keep up with the recent work on the history of popular entertainments and the rise of the mass media in America. This year, the task has been a real pleasure, and I want to recommend three truly wonderful books that are a delight to read, and compel us to rethink our cultural history.

Ann Douglas's tour de force, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Farrar Straus Giroux), provides a pulsing, detailed, and vivid portrait of New York City's ascendance as cultural capital of America during this era, ...

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