American Studies (34 page)
Authors: Louis Menand
LIFE IN THE STONE AGE
1
Robert Draper,
“Rolling
Stone” Magazine: The Uncensored History (New York: Doubleday, 1990), 255.
“Rolling
Stone” Magazine: The Uncensored History (New York: Doubleday, 1990), 255.
2
Draper,
“Rolling
Stone” Magazine, 131.
“Rolling
Stone” Magazine, 131.
3
Draper,
“Rolling Stone” Magazine,
127.
“Rolling Stone” Magazine,
127.
4
Draper,
“Rolling
Stone” Magazine, 20.
“Rolling
Stone” Magazine, 20.
5
Draper,
“Rolling
Stone” Magazine, 131.
“Rolling
Stone” Magazine, 131.
6
Peter Guralnick, “Elvis Presley,” in
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock ’n’Roll,
ed. Jim Miller, rev. ed. (New York: Random House, 1980), 25.
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock ’n’Roll,
ed. Jim Miller, rev. ed. (New York: Random House, 1980), 25.
7
Bill Wyman, Stone
Alone:
The Story
of a
Rock
‘n’ Roll
Band (New York: Viking, 1990), 193.
Alone:
The Story
of a
Rock
‘n’ Roll
Band (New York: Viking, 1990), 193.
8
Lester Bangs, “The Doors,” in The
Rolling
Stone Illustrated History of Rock ‘n’
Roll
, 280
.
Rolling
Stone Illustrated History of Rock ‘n’
Roll
, 280
.
9
Simon Frith, Sound
Effects:
Youth, Leisure,
and
the Politics of Rock
‘n’
Roll (New York: Pantheon, 1981), 11.
Effects:
Youth, Leisure,
and
the Politics of Rock
‘n’
Roll (New York: Pantheon, 1981), 11.
10
“Playboy Interview: Timothy Leary,” Playboy 13 (September 1966):100,102. Many of Leary’s personal remarks about his use of LSD as an aphrodisiac were silently edited out of the version reprinted in The Playboy Interview, ed. G. Barry Golson (NewYork: Playboy Press, 1981).
11
Norman Mailer,
The Armies of the Night: History
as a
Novel, The Novel
as
History (New York: New American Library, 1968), 5.
The Armies of the Night: History
as a
Novel, The Novel
as
History (New York: New American Library, 1968), 5.
12
Thompson has been the subject of two biographies: E. Jean Carroll, Hunter: The Strange
and
Savage Life of Hunter
S.
Thompson (New York: Plume, 1993); and Peter O. Whitmer, When the Going Gets Weird: The Twisted Life
and
Times of Hunter S.
Thompson: A Very
Unauthorized Biography (New York: Hyperion, 1993). Two volumes of correspondence have been published, both edited by the historian Douglas Brinkley: The Proud Highway:
Saga
of
a
Desperate Southern
Gentleman, 1955—1967
(
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997
)
; and Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968—1976
(
New
York: Simon and Schuster, 2000).
and
Savage Life of Hunter
S.
Thompson (New York: Plume, 1993); and Peter O. Whitmer, When the Going Gets Weird: The Twisted Life
and
Times of Hunter S.
Thompson: A Very
Unauthorized Biography (New York: Hyperion, 1993). Two volumes of correspondence have been published, both edited by the historian Douglas Brinkley: The Proud Highway:
Saga
of
a
Desperate Southern
Gentleman, 1955—1967
(
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997
)
; and Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968—1976
(
New
York: Simon and Schuster, 2000).
13
Gered Mankowitz, in A. E. Hotchner, Blown Away: The
Rolling
Stones
and
the Death of the Sixties (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), 158.
Rolling
Stones
and
the Death of the Sixties (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), 158.
THE POPIST: PAULINE KAEL
1
Pauline Kael, “The Man from Dream City” (1975), When the Lights Go Down (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980), 6.
2
Pauline Kael, “Raising Kane,” in Kael, Herman J. Mankiewicz, and Orson Welles, The Citizen
Kane Book
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), 14, 13.
Kane Book
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), 14, 13.
3
Kael, “Raising Kane,” 20.
4
Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights
at
the
Movies:
A Guide from A to Z (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982), 160.
at
the
Movies:
A Guide from A to Z (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982), 160.
5
Kael, 5001 Nights
at
the Movies, 383.
at
the Movies, 383.
6
Pauline Kael, “Flesh” (1973), Reeling (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976), 94.
7
Pauline Kael, “Come-Dressed-As-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties,”
I
Lost It at the Movies: Film Writings 1954—1965 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1965), 176.
I
Lost It at the Movies: Film Writings 1954—1965 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1965), 176.
8
Pauline Kael, “Sugarland and Badlands” (1974), Reeling, 301.
9
See, on Kael’s career generally, Phillip Lopate,
Totally,
Tenderly,
Tragically:
Essays
and
Criticism from
a
Lifelong Love Affair with the Movies (New York: Doubleday, 1998), 219—50.
Totally,
Tenderly,
Tragically:
Essays
and
Criticism from
a
Lifelong Love Affair with the Movies (New York: Doubleday, 1998), 219—50.
10
Pauline Kael, “Notes on Evolving Heroes, Morals, Audiences” (1976), When the Lights Go
Down,
195.
Down,
195.
11
Pauline Kael, “Urban Gothic” (1971), Deeper into Movies (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973), 318—19.
12
Pauline Kael, “When the Saints Come Marching In” (1974), Reeling, 377.
13
Pauline Kael, “Saint Cop” (1972), Deeper into Movies, 388.
14
Pauline Kael, “Pods” (1978), When the Lights Go Down, 524.
15
Pauline Kael, “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gadgeteer” (1981), Taking
It All
In (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984), 227.
It All
In (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984), 227.
16
Pauline Kael, “Love Hate” (1988), Movie Love: Complete Reviews 1988—1991 (New York: Dutton, 1991), 48.
17
Pauline Kael, “The Sevens,” State
of
the Art (New York: Dutton, 1985), 65.
of
the Art (New York: Dutton, 1985), 65.
18
Pauline Kael, “After Innocence” (1973), Reeling, 167.
19
Pauline Kael, “It’s Only a Movie,” in Film Study in Higher Education, ed. David C. Stewart (Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1966), 143—44.
20
Pauline Kael, “Is There a Cure for Movie Criticism?” (1962),
I
Lost It at the Movies, 292.
I
Lost It at the Movies, 292.
21
Robert Warshow, “Author’s Preface,” The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre
and
Other Aspects of Popular Culture (Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1962), 27. The words were written in 1954.
and
Other Aspects of Popular Culture (Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1962), 27. The words were written in 1954.
22
Pauline Kael, “Movies, the Desperate Art,” in
Film:
An Anthology, ed. Daniel Talbot (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959), 64.
Film:
An Anthology, ed. Daniel Talbot (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959), 64.
23
Pauline Kael, “Incredible Shrinking Hollywood,” Holiday, March 1966, 86.
24
Dwight Macdonald, On Movies (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969), 470.
CHRISTOPHER LASCH’S QUARREL WITH LIBERALISM
1
Christopher Lasch, The American Liberals
and
the Russian Revolution (New York: Columbia University Press, 1962), xvi.
and
the Russian Revolution (New York: Columbia University Press, 1962), xvi.
2
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The
Vital
Center: The Politics of Freedom (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 256.
Vital
Center: The Politics of Freedom (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 256.
3
Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties (New York: Free Press, 1960), 370, 373.
4
Schlesinger, The
Vital
Center, 174.
Vital
Center, 174.
5
Bell himself, in fact, criticized the messianic character of liberal anticommunism in the 1950s; see The End of Ideology, 108—12.
6
Christopher Lasch,
The Agony of the American
Left (New York: Knopf, 1969), 5.
The Agony of the American
Left (New York: Knopf, 1969), 5.
7
Lasch, The Agony of the American Left, 10.
8
Lasch,
The Agony
of
the American
Left, 29.
The Agony
of
the American
Left, 29.
9
Christopher Lasch, Haven
in a
Heartless World: The Family Besieged (New York: Basic Books, 1977), xv.
in a
Heartless World: The Family Besieged (New York: Basic Books, 1977), xv.
10
Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World, xxi.
11
Lasch., Haven in a Heartless World, 169.
12
Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World, 168.
13
See Christopher Lasch, “Life in the Therapeutic State,” New York Review of Books, June 12, 1980, 24—32.
14
Christopher Lasch,
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
(New York: Norton, 1979), 94.
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
(New York: Norton, 1979), 94.
15
Lasch,
The Culture of Narcissism,
51.
The Culture of Narcissism,
51.
16
Lasch,
The Culture of Narcissism
, 175.
The Culture of Narcissism
, 175.
17
Lasch,
The Culture of Narcissism,
50.
The Culture of Narcissism,
50.
18
Christopher Lasch,
The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
(New York: Norton, 1984), 19.
The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
(New York: Norton, 1984), 19.
19
See Lasch’s remarks on professional historians in “Consensus: An Academic Question?”
Journal of American History
76 (1989): 457–59.
Journal of American History
76 (1989): 457–59.
20
Christopher Lasch, “The Saving Remnant,” New Republic, November 19, 1990, 33.
21
Lasch,
The Culture of Narcissism,
42.
The Culture of Narcissism,
42.
22
Lasch,
Haven in a Heartless World
, 183.
Haven in a Heartless World
, 183.
23
Lasch, “Life in the Therapeutic State,” 27.
24
Christopher Lasch, “The Crime of Quality Time” (an interview),
New Perspectives Quarterly
7 (Winter 1990): 48.
New Perspectives Quarterly
7 (Winter 1990): 48.
25
Lasch,
The Culture of Narcissism,
99.
The Culture of Narcissism,
99.
26
Christopher Lasch,
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
(New York: Norton, 1991), 82.
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
(New York: Norton, 1991), 82.
27
Lasch had written sympathetically about populist political movements before. See
The Agony of the American Left
, 3–31; and “Populism, Socialism, and Mc-Governism,”
The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture
(New York: Knopf, 1973), 160–82.
The Agony of the American Left
, 3–31; and “Populism, Socialism, and Mc-Governism,”
The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture
(New York: Knopf, 1973), 160–82.
28
See Christopher Lasch, “Herbert Croly’s America,” New York Review of Books, July 1, 1965, 18–19.
29
See Christopher Lasch,
The New Radicalism in America, 1889–1963: The Intellectual as a
Social Type (New York: Knopf, 1965), 299–303.
The New Radicalism in America, 1889–1963: The Intellectual as a
Social Type (New York: Knopf, 1965), 299–303.
30
Lasch,
The True and Only Heaven,
402.
The True and Only Heaven,
402.
31
Lasch,
The True and Only Heaven,
526.
The True and Only Heaven,
526.
32
Lasch,
The True and Only Heaven,
531.
The True and Only Heaven,
531.
33
Lasch,
The True and Only Heaven,
305.
The True and Only Heaven,
305.
34
See Eugen Weber,
Action Française: Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth-Century France
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962), 74; and Michael Curtis,
Three Against the Republic: Sorel, Barrès, and Maurras
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959), 211-12.
Action Française: Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth-Century France
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962), 74; and Michael Curtis,
Three Against the Republic: Sorel, Barrès, and Maurras
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959), 211-12.
35
Georges Valois, in
Le fascisme
(1927); quoted in Zeev Sternhell, Neither Right nor
Left: Fascist Ideology in France
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 9.
Le fascisme
(1927); quoted in Zeev Sternhell, Neither Right nor
Left: Fascist Ideology in France
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 9.
36
Lasch, The
True and Only Heaven
, 305.
True and Only Heaven
, 305.
37
Lasch, The
True and Only Heaven
, 56–57.
True and Only Heaven
, 56–57.
38
See Christopher Lasch, “Birth, Death, and Technology: The Limits of Cultural Laissez-Faire,”
The World of Nations,
294–307.
The World of Nations,
294–307.
39
Christopher Lasch, “Who Owes What to Whom?”
Harper’s,
February 1991, 49.
Harper’s,
February 1991, 49.
40
Lasch,
The New Radicalism in America, xii.
The New Radicalism in America, xii.
LUST IN ACTION: JERRY FALWELL AND LARRY FLYNT
1
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski,
The People vs. Larry Flynt: The Shooting Script
(New York: Newmarket Press, 1996), ix.
The People vs. Larry Flynt: The Shooting Script
(New York: Newmarket Press, 1996), ix.
2
Frank Rich, “Larry Flynt, Patriot,”
New York Times,
October 12, 1996, A23.
New York Times,
October 12, 1996, A23.
3
Hanna Rosin, “Hustler,” New Republic, January 6, 1997, 20.
4
Larry Flynt,
An Unseemly Man: My Life as a Pornographer, Pundit, and Social Outcast
(Los Angeles: Dove Books, 1996), 134.
An Unseemly Man: My Life as a Pornographer, Pundit, and Social Outcast
(Los Angeles: Dove Books, 1996), 134.
5
Flynt,
An Unseemly Man, 232.
An Unseemly Man, 232.
6
Adam Davidson, “Afterword: Talking with Milos Forman,” in Alexander and Karaszewski, The People
vs.
Larry
Flynt,
177.
vs.
Larry
Flynt,
177.
7
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
, 485 U.S. 46, 53 (1987).
, 485 U.S. 46, 53 (1987).
8
See Robert C. Post, “The Constitutional Concept of Public Discourse: Outrageous Opinion, Democratic Deliberation, and
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell,” Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995), 119–78.
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell,” Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995), 119–78.
9
Restatement (Second) of Torts (1977);
quoted in Post
, Constitutional Domains,
132.
quoted in Post
, Constitutional Domains,
132.
10
Reported in John Heidenry, What Wild Ecstasy:
The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution
(NewYork: Simon and Schuster, 1997), 197.
The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution
(NewYork: Simon and Schuster, 1997), 197.
11
See Frances Fitzgerald,
Cities on a Hill: A Journey through Contemporary American Cultures
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), 154–55.
Cities on a Hill: A Journey through Contemporary American Cultures
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), 154–55.
12
See Rodney A. Smolla,
Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt: The First Amendment on Trial
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), 6—9. Smolla’s book is an extremely thorough account of the entire case.
Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt: The First Amendment on Trial
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), 6—9. Smolla’s book is an extremely thorough account of the entire case.
13
William F. Fore, quoted in Larry Mertz and Ginny Carroll,
Ministry of Greed: The Inside Story of the Televangelists and Their Holy Wars
(New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988), 46.
Ministry of Greed: The Inside Story of the Televangelists and Their Holy Wars
(New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988), 46.
14
Heidenry,
What Wild Ecstasy,
330.
What Wild Ecstasy,
330.
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