Sage Publications Postmodernity USA: The Crisis of Social Modernism in Postwar America: 21 (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

In this rigorous and challenging analysis of American postmodernity, Anthony Woodiwiss re-examines the political, economic and social life of the United States over the past 60 years. Exploring the rise and fall of modernism as a social ideology, he offers a distinctive and original interpretation of the unique experience of American modernity and the arrival of the postmodern world. The result is both a novel history of postwar America and a significant contribution to the idea of postmodernism as a social and cultural form. Postmodernity USAalso carries lessons for the understanding of class, culture and politics in late industrial societies in general.