The Rising Glory Of America Analysis

In this chapter of Empire of Liberty which I titled The Rising Glory of America, the author Gordon Wood bring the almost golden age beginnings of this relatively new nation and its bright future that we know today. He writes about culture, “Through the multiplication of newspapers, magazines, circulating libraries, and book clubs, through public exhibitions of paintings and the engraving and distribution of prints…Englishmen and other Europeans sought to exploit the arts in order to reform their societies. In the process the turned the arts into culture, into commodities, and created a central characteristic of modern life.” (Pg 550) This is just an instance of the advent of the American culture that could lend itself to the ability to transfer customs to other countries through the arts. The people of this time could not have thought about the increased popular culture output by the United States through many media outlets that the US created such as the television, the internet, and the cinema. This aspects of culture especially our movies play heavily well overseas especially in our growing globalized society and helps get our modern culture spread around the world. …show more content…
Since America has all the mass media that is made today, one could assess that the world would look a heck of a lot different without our people making the inventions that have matured into industries of culture such Thomas Edison with the Phonograph and the Movie projector that allowed for our culture to be easily dispersed into countries that may have not have known about us as intimately as they do after consume our