{"product_id":"eminent-jews-bernstein-brooks-friedan-mailer","title":"Eminent Jews","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey worked in different fields, and, apart from clinking glasses at parties now and then, they hardly knew one another. But they shared a historical moment and a common temperament. For all four, their Jewish heritage was electrified by American liberty. The results were explosive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs prosperity for Jews increased and anti-Semitism began to fade after World War II, these four creative giants stormed through the latter half of the twentieth century, altering the way people around the world listened to music, defined what was vulgar, comprehended the relations of men and women, and understood the American soul. They were not saints; they were turbulent and self-dissatisfied intellectuals who fearlessly wielded their own newly won freedom to charge up American culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCelebratory yet candid, at times fiercely critical, David Denby presents these four figures as egotistical and generous--larger-than-life, all of them, yet vulnerable, even heartbreaking, in their ambition, ferocity, and pride.","brand":"Henry Holt \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661256261922,"sku":"9781250193407","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_b4038f2e-ac36-4d52-96d9-2db0c0d7145c.jpg?v=1779452663","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/eminent-jews-bernstein-brooks-friedan-mailer","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}