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Traces the life of the "media guru," contrasts his academic life in Toronto with the glitzy world of New York media, and examines the major themes of his writings
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An authorized biography of the Canadian professor, intellectual, and writer remembered for his sweeping pronouncements about the media and its uneasy relationship to contemporary culture. Gordon, a professor of French who heard McLuhan lecture in the mid-1960s and has maintained a sustained interest in his work, offers a glimpse into the warm, whimsical, and spiritual man, and sheds new light on McLuhan's work itself, reappraising his grounding contribution to the study of the media and its impact. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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