Mass Culture & Gender

The Americans seems dated because it fails to live up to its subtitle. Boorstin (1973) describes the history of white, male capitalists in the United States. He labels these capitalists "Go-Getters." In the first chapter of the book he describes how the Go-Getters tamed the Old West. Boorstin (1973) glamorizes the lives of the ranchers and cowboys who successfully thwarted the "Indian menace" and created capitals of commerce like Abilene, Dodge City, and Cheyenne: "A Go-Getter's loyalty was his willingness to stick by his guns to avenge a friend, to defend his cattle, or to secure a fortune" (p. 34). Boorstin (1973) even devotes an entire chapter to lawyers, the "generalized Go-Getters."

In contrast, Modleski (1986) takes a critical look at mass entertainment as a means of understanding its relationship to gender. Mass entertainment, in many respects, defines the basic foundations of culture. Instead of taking a textbook approach to her subject, as Boorstin (1973) has, Modleski (1986) presents a series of essays written by distinguished professors from a diverse range of discipline

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n-tradtional ways. Anderson is a professor of economics at Montana State University, and a senior associate and economist at private research institutes. Leal is a research associate at the Political Economy Research Center. The authors contend that sound natural resource management can be achieved through privatization. Although written in dissimilar formats, The Natural Alien and Free Market Environmentalism are both highly readable books. The Natural Alien is essentially an essay. No statistics or tables are presented. The author employs numerous quotes from experts in a wide range of disciplines. Evernden (1993) makes frequent use of analogies to express his point of view. In contrast, Free Market Environmentalism is based on much research and utilizes statistics liberally. The book includes a lengthy bibliography and an abundance of footnotes. The use of extensive research and statistics in the Anderson and Leal (1991) book was undoubtedly necessitated by the fact that free market environmentalism is a controversial subject. The authors' conclusions challenge many accepted environmental policies. For example, numerous studies published by respected economics institutes predict a growing shortage of natural reso
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