Cultural Amnesia; Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by James, Clive

New York: W.W. Norton & Company 978-0-393-06116-1 [978-0-393-06116-1] 2007. (Hardcover) 876pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Photographs, index. "Nearly forty years in the making, Cultural Amnesia is the work of a lifetime. Poetic in its language, magesterial in its scope, and courageous in its defense of the human spirit, it is both an enlightening and a despairing work, written by one of the world's most renowned critics". (Ideas, Art and Artists, Critical Theory, Encyclopedia, History, Ideas, Intellectual Life, Literary Criticism).