Conjurers, Cranks, Provincials, and AntediluviansThe best essays from America's premier cultural historian Jackson Lears has been hailed as the "dean of American cultural history" and "one of the few pre eminent historians of our time." Well known for his elegant, daring scholarship on topics such as antimodernism, advertising, and luck, Lears has also been a critic and essayist whose public facing writingspublished in journals such as the New Republic, The Nation, the London Review of Books, and