In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss the influence of The Lord of the Rings on the 1960s counterculture. Later, Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College, talks with Kenny about his own experience discovering The Lord of the Rings and what it meant to the subculture that he belonged to.
Maurice's latest book is The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors, out now in paperback from Mariner Books.
Also by Maurice Isserman:
Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering | The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington | America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (w/ Michael Kazin) | Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes (w/ Stewart Weaver) | If I Had A Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left (out of print)
Primary sources:
The Hobbit | The Lord of the Rings | The Silmarillion
Leave us a review! Send us an email at entmootpod@gmail.com!
Secondary sources:
Ciabattari - Hobbits and Hippies: Tolkien and the Counterculture | Carpenter - J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
","author_name":"Kenny Talarico & Sam Lieberman"}