George Cotkin, “Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility” (Oxford UP, 2015)

George Cotkin is an emeritus professor of history at California Polytechnic State University. In his book Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility (Oxford University Press, 2015) he has given us cultural criticism through a set of provocative portraits of creative Americans at mid-twentieth century who defied...

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