{"product_id":"9780394744780","title":"Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete.\"\u003cbr\u003e— David A. Hollinger, \u003ci\u003eHistory Book Club Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument.\"\u003cbr\u003e— Gordon A. Craig, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history\" — H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, T\u003ci\u003ehe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts\" — John Willett, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013089902832,"sku":"9780394744780","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780394744780_p0.jpg?v=1763698007","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780394744780","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}