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Full Description
This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.
Contents
Introduction: Merchant of Academe Gifted Boy of the Gilded Age The Columbia Stamp The Gown is the Town Growing Pains at a New Columbia World War I and the French Seduction A Canon for the Rest of Us Celebrity Attraction Fame and Loathing on Morningside Heights Raising Juilliard Segues and Second Acts