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American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
American Pulp How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
Author: Paula Rabinowitz
"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."--a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how it brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691150604
ISBN-10: 0691150605
Publication Date: 10/5/2014
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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