In this biography, Steven Watts tells the story of the rise of Henry Ford from his farm-boy roots in the 19th century to his position as the businessman who, perhaps more than anyone else, changed America in the 20th. Wells documents Ford's inventions--including the Model T and the assembly line--but it is Ford's intuitive grasp of the potential ...
This is the real Hugh Hefner - the extraordinary inside story of an American icon. 'Riveting...Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages' - "Newark Star Ledger". 'Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected all of us, so I treasured learning about how and why in the sober biography' - "Chicago Sun Times". 'This is a fun book. How could it not ...
The War of 1812 played a critical role in the emergence of an American 'culture of capitalism.' In the Republic Reborn Steven Watts offers a brilliant new interpretation of the war and the foundation of liberal America. He explores the sweeping changes that took place in America between 1790 and 1820--the growth of an entrepreneurial economy of ...
Part biography and part cultural analysis, Steven Watts's The Magic Kingdom sheds new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt." Watts also digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and providing fresh insight into his peculiar psyche - his genuine folksiness and warmth, his domineering ...
A biography of Walt Disney, written by a professor of history at the University of Missouri. Watts views Disney's career as an expression of the same culture that he was to change through his art, and he attempts to explain Disney's vast popularity as part of America's development of a mass culture that was meaningful to audiences from widely ...
Among the leading writers of the early republic, Charles Brockden Brown often appears as a romantic prototype - the brilliant, alienated author rejected by a utilitarian, materialistic American society. In "The Romance of Real Life", Steven Watts reinterprets Brown's life and work as a case study in the emerging culture of capitalism at the dawn ...
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