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[A] master class in American cultural and intellectual history. Sarah E. Igo, The New York Times Book Review

Jackson Lears is the preeminent cultural historian of the American empire. This book is another masterpiece in his magisterial corpus. Cornel West

One of Wired''s best books of 2023

A master historian's retrieval of the spiritual visions and vitalisms that animate American life and the possibilities they offer today.

In Animal Spirits, the distinguished historian Jackson Lears explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual's spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion, business, and politics. From Puritan times to today, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 20 June 2023
      ISBN-13 9780374290221
      978-0374290221
      ISBN-10 0374290229

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      [A] master class in American cultural and intellectual history. Sarah E. Igo, The New York Times Book Review

      Jackson Lears is the preeminent cultural historian of the American empire. This book is another masterpiece in his magisterial corpus. Cornel West

      One of Wired''s best books of 2023

      A master historian's retrieval of the spiritual visions and vitalisms that animate American life and the possibilities they offer today.

      In Animal Spirits, the distinguished historian Jackson Lears explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual's spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion, business, and politics. From Puritan times to today, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American

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