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June 2, 2013

Arts History

The Confidence Economy

An interview with T.J. Jackson Lears, historian of the “charlatans and hucksters of the Gilded Age, the cagey, conniving street peddlers of what we’d rather think was a premodern world.”

B. R. Cohen Public Books May 2013 15min Permalink