Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson and the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2024
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Mylar-protected jacket and covers in as new condition, binding straight, pages clean and unmarked. First Edition, first printing. A fascinating account of a professor who played a major role with the OSS during World War II, was present at the creation of the CIA, and then went on to be a very influential, if under the radar, professor at Yale, where he began an influential American Studies program and helped shape the Modernist canon, including his friend HD, who otherwise might not have been included.
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- Title
- Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson and the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power
- Author
- Greg Barnhisel
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 022664720X
- ISBN 13
- 9780226647203
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
Although his impact on twentieth-century American cultural life was profound, few people know the story of Norman Holmes Pearson. Pearson’s life embodied the Cold War alliances among US artists, scholars, and the national-security state that coalesced after World War II. As a Yale professor and editor, he helped legitimize the study of American culture and shaped the public’s understanding of literary modernism―significantly, the work of women poets such as Hilda Doolittle and Gertrude Stein. At the same time, as a spy, recruiter, and cultural diplomat, he connected the academy, the State Department, and even the CIA.
In Code Name Puritan, Greg Barnhisel maps Pearson’s life, from his childhood injury that led to a visible, permanent disability to his wartime counterespionage work neutralizing the Nazis’ spy network to his powerful role in the cultural and political heyday sometimes called the American Century. Written with clarity and informed by meticulous research, Barnhisel’s revelatory portrait of Pearson details how his unique experiences shaped his beliefs about the American character, from the Puritans onward.
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