Mall of America:
Reflections of a Virtual Community
by Eric Nelson

ISBN: 1–880090–58–9
Size: 5-1/4 x 8 • 272 pgs.
Price: $14.95

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The Mall of America annually draws more visitors than Disney World, Graceland, and the Grand Canyon combined. It is itself a comment on the culture that created it. St. Olaf College professor Eric Nelson explores the attraction of this glitzy city-within-a-city with a wry humor, holding it up as a mirror that reflects American mores and cultural values.

Eric Nelson has spoken about the human and social aspects of the Mall of America at national seminars and conferences and with groups as diverse as French architects and engineers, college students, and senior citizens from every part of the U.S. He teaches in the English department of St. Olaf College.