@book{ title = "A great idea at the time", author = "Beam, Alex", year = "2008", publisher = "PublicAffairs", address = "New York", edition = "1. ed.", title = "the rise, fall, and curious afterlife of the Great Books", language = "eng", isbn = "9781586484873", keywords = "Geschichte,Gesellschaft,Canon (Literature),Popular culture,Books and reading,Education, Humanistic,Kanon,Literatur,Vermarktung", note = "Includes bibliographical references and index", abstract = "Explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age." }