[lbo-talk] Thomas Frank (was NSOC)

[Charles Turner]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:16:40 -0400, Charles Turner wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:53:32 -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>> The English-speaking world had, two years before the publication of Le
>> Nouvel Esprit du capitalisme (1999), Thomas Frank's The Conquest of
>> Cool (1997) and before that The Baffler (1988-2006).


> Well, I'm reading _One Market Under God_ right now, and it's a 
> delightful complement to _New Spirit_.

I think if I had had the presence of mind at the time, I would have 
also cited Raymond Williams' _Politics of Modernism_ as another 
important precursor. Dipping back into it now, it seems worth another 
read through...

Charles