Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America

by Russel B. Nye

There has never been a book like this - a comprehensive history of American literature and entertainment for mass theater, fiction (including westerns, detective novels, and science fiction), the pulps, comic books and comic strips, popular music, radio and television, and movies. A feast of nostalgia and information, of commercial lore and creative scruples, "The Unembarrassed Muse" provides a full and flavorsome panorama of mass culture in America.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Russel Blaine Nye was a historian of American literature and culture who taught English at Michigan State University from 1941 until his retirement in 1979.