Morris Dickstein’s latest book, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, has just come out in paperback from W. W. Norton. It won the 2010 Ambassador Book Award in American Studies from the English-Speaking Union and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.
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