TY - SER AU - Joan Shelley Rubin CY - Chapel Hill, NC LA - English N1 - Contents: Self, culture, and self-culture in America The "higher journalism" realigned : Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van Doren, and Books Why do you disappoint yourself? : the early history of the Book of the Month Club Classics and commercials : John Erskine and "great books" Merchant of light : Will Durant and the vogue of the "outline" Information, please! : book programs on commercial radio. PB - University of North Carolina Press PP - Chapel Hill, NC PY - 1991 SN - 9780807820100 TI - The Making of Middlebrow Culture ER -