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I have just realized that Lynes is actually quite a sophisticated historian. When I started reading this, I thought I was going to find a naive artifact of its time (the early fifties), but I was mostly wrong: he understands quite well the heterogenous forces that shape our culture: from technological advances to grassroots organizations and commercial ventures, and he understands that the domestic is also social.

Very interesting, if you want to better understand the social construction of taste, and how white America dealt with their Post-Colonial insecurities in the nineteenth Century

A decir verdad, sí es interesante, aunque no muy profundo