Author explores America’s long-standing fascination with Spanish culture and its impact on our own

Albuquerque, N.M. — In terms of college courses, the word “survey” brings to mind a textbook blanketing related subjects under a shared theme.

Author/historian Richard L. Kagan’s book “The Spanish Craze” may be a survey, but it’s far from academic. Indeed, it’s a lively, readable, widely focused work that argues the United States has been enamored with Spain and the Spanish world off and on for 140 years.

Kagan examines that fascination through multiple cultural expressions – art, architecture, literature, history, opera and film – between 1799 and 1939.

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