“Conjurors Cranks Provincials and Antediluvians: The Off-Modern in American History”

Book Review: Social Critic Jackson Lears Cheers the “Off-Modern”

March 7, 2025
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Jackson Lears’s collection of essays and book reviews gets a few things right in its description of various kooks, oddballs, and mavericks who sometimes succeeded in moving history in their direction. But it gets far more wrong.

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