Cecelia Tichi, Author . Univ. of North Carolina $39.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-8078-3300-1
Social historian Tichi makes the case that there are widespread parallels between the excesses and inequities of the country's first Gilded Age over a century ago and the lopsided social and economic landscape of our day. In a lively spur to...
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Cecelia Tichi, Author University of North Carolina Press $39.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-8078-1715-5
In this lengthy study, Boston Univ. English professor Tichi (author of New World, New Earth examines technology's impact on language, art and popular culture from the 1890s to the 1920s. During this period the professional engineer became a national
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Cecelia Tichi, Author Oxford University Press, USA $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-19-506549-7
Television is so deeply embedded in American culture that, in Tichi's view, it has brought about a ``momentous cognitive change'': the on-screen world ratifies existence. Politicians, actors and other ``simulated heroes'' of TV are elevated into...
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Cecelia Tichi. Univ. of North Carolina, $34.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4696-2266-8
In this persuasive reappraisal of Jack London, Tichi (Civic Passions) argues that the self-made man and bestselling author was also a dedicated social reformer. London was raised in poverty during America's Gilded Age—an era that Tichi describes in...
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