1959: One of Mailer’s Years

Authors

Advertisements for Myself, 1950s American Culture, literary self-fashioning, postmodernism and authorship, high and mass culture, Beat Generation

Review of 1959: The Year that Changed Everything by Fred Kaplan. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.

William T. Ross, University of South Florida

William T. Ross is former Chair and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of South Florida. In addition to a number of articles on rhetoric and the discursive prose of George Orwell and Bertrand Russell, he is the author of books on the American poet Weldon Kees and the historical works of H. G. Wells.