T. J. Jackson Lears (born 1947) is an American cultural and intellectual historian with interests in comparative religious history, literature and the visual arts, folklore, and folk beliefs. He is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and Editor in Chief of the Raritan Quarterly Review.
Books in order of publication:
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920 (1981).
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (1994).
Something for Nothing: Luck in America (2003).
Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).
Animal Spirits: the American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street (2023)
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