Archive for Vera Brubaker Thompson
Book Review: Empire of the Masses: The Decline of Taste in America by Fred DeArmond
(Dorrance & Co., 35 Cricket Terrace, Ardmore, PA 19003), 1980 146 pages • $6.95 cloth Any citizen beyond his teens must be aware of negative factors threatening the usual pleasant pace of life to which most of us have become accustomed. What has gone wrong? Where are all those bright dreams every American child had, [...]
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