When:
October 12, 2014 @ 4:00 pm
2014-10-12T16:00:00+01:00
2014-10-12T17:00:00+01:00
Where:
St Pancas Room
Kings Place
90 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 9AG
UK
Kings Place
90 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 9AG
UK
Cost:
£6.50
Contact:
America emerged as a global power in the post-war period, and dazzled – and sometimes intimidated – older, less innovative cultures. Its affluence was something the world aspired to, and this fantasy with its covetable goods and fresh cultural attachments won the Cold War.
Peter Conrad draws on his brilliant repertoire of cultural skills to surprise us with his kaleidoscope presentation of the movies and music, jeans and sneakers, food, novels and paintings that have shaped so much of the world in our lifetime.
Born in the US, Erica Wagner is a writer, journalist, judge of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and Eccles British Library Writer in Residence