Best of
The-1700s
1969
A Rocket in My Pocket: The Rhymes and Chants of Young Americans
Carl Withers - 1969
"The book makes hilarious group reading and will open ears and eyes to a new interest available around us."--The Horn Book
Li'l Abner: A Study in American Satire
Arthur Asa Berger - 1969
Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae, Mammy and Pappy Yokum, Moonbeam McSwine, Marryin' Sam, and Sadie Hawkins became pillars in American popular culture, and Dogpatch became a symbol, an emblem, and a community in mainstream U.S.A.The denizens of Dogpatch were destined for their place outside the frames of comic strips. They were popular subjects on stage and screen and eventually made their way into scholarly studies.Li'l Abner: A Study in American Satire, the first such assessment, is made available again in this edition which includes a new afterword by the author. Originally published in 1969, it was the first full-length book devoted to a single American comic strip. It has remained a model of how the comics, sometimes snubbed as "culture for the common man," can
Genesis as Myth and Other Essays
Edmund Leach - 1969