Steven Watts Books
The People's Tycoon
By Steven Watts
How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engagi...
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The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life
By Steven Watts
The Magic Kingdom is a full-length investigation of the life of Walt Disney, arguabley the principal architect of mass culture in our time. Watts also digs deeply into Disney's private life, invest...
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Hefner
By Watts, Steven Watts
Argues that, in the process of becoming fabulously wealthy and famous, Hefner has profoundly altered American life and values. Hefner, from the beginning, believed he could overturn social norms an...
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The romance of real life
By Steven Watts
Among the leading writers of the early republic, Charles Brockden Brown often appears as a romantic prototype - the brilliant, alienated author rejected by a utilitarian, materialistic American soc...
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JFK and the masculine mystique
By Steven Watts
A cultural examination of the popularity and allure of the thirty-fifth president reveals how Kennedy was tailored to appeal to the public of his time, explaining how he symbolized postwar views ab...
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