The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s - Hardcover

Pells, Richard H.

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9780060153519: The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s

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ISBN 10: 0060153512 ISBN 13: 9780060153519

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1985

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An excellent study of American intellectuals in the 40's and 50's.

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The New York Times"

The New York Time Book Review"

Reviews in American History"

Journal of American History"

The New York intellectuals are fortunate this time out in being in the hands of a chronicler who grinds no axes o their reputations and does them the courtesy of close if sometimes critical readings. Walter Goodman, The New York Times"

An excellent study of American intellectuals in the 1940 s and 1950 s. David M. Oshinsky, The New York Time Book Review"

Without question this is a significant work of scholarship by a serious and able historian. It will certainly long stand as an interpretive work to be reckoned with as our understanding of the early post-war period continues to evolve Paul Boyer, Reviews in American History"

[This book] contains perceptive discussions of major thinkers and intellectual movements. Christopher Lasch, Journal of American History"

-The New York intellectuals are fortunate this time out in being in the hands of a chronicler who grinds no axes o their reputations and does them the courtesy of close if sometimes critical readings.- --Walter Goodman, The New York Times

-An excellent study of American intellectuals in the 1940's and 1950's.---David M. Oshinsky, The New York Time Book Review

-Without question this is a significant work of scholarship by a serious and able historian. It will certainly long stand as an interpretive work to be reckoned with as our understanding of the early post-war period continues to evolve---Paul Boyer, Reviews in American History

-[This book] contains perceptive discussions of major thinkers and intellectual movements.- --Christopher Lasch, Journal of American History

"The New York intellectuals are fortunate this time out in being in the hands of a chronicler who grinds no axes o their reputations and does them the courtesy of close if sometimes critical readings."--Walter Goodman "The New York Times"

"An excellent study of American intellectuals in the 1940's and 1950's."--David M. Oshinsky "The New York Time Book Review"

"Without question this is a significant work of scholarship by a serious and able historian. It will certainly long stand as an interpretive work to be reckoned with as our understanding of the early post-war period continues to evolve"--Paul Boyer "Reviews in American History"

"[This book] contains perceptive discussions of major thinkers and intellectual movements."--Christopher Lasch "Journal of American History"

About the Author:

RICHARD H. PELLS is a graduate of Rutgers University (B.A., 1963) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1969). Now professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, he has taught at Harvard, received a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities fellowship, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a Fulbright-Hays Senior Lecturer at the universities of Amsterdam and Copenhagen. He is also the author of Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years (Wesleyan, 1984). He lives in Austin.

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