Alan Brinkley : : A Life in History /

Alan Brinkley : : A Life in History / / ed. by David Greenberg, Moshik Temkin, Mason B. Williams.

Few American historians of his generation have had as much influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley. His debut work, the National Book Award-winning Voices of Protest, launched a storied career that considered the full spectrum of American political life. His books give ser...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Alter, Jonathan,
Berg, A. Scott,
Brinkley, Elly,
Cohen, Lizabeth,
Dallek, Matthew,
Decker, Jefferson,
Flamm, Michael W.,
Fone, Eric,
Greenberg, David,
Hemmer, Nicole,
Katznelson, Ira,
Lemann, Nicholas,
Malkiel, Nancy Weiss,
Musher, Sharon Ann,
Rich, Frank,
Temkin, Moshik,
Williams, Mason B.,
HerausgeberIn:
Greenberg, David,
Temkin, Moshik,
Williams, Mason B.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
©2018
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword: A Career in Full
  • PART I. A Historian's Work
  • 1. A Personal History
  • 2. The "Dissident Ideology" Revisited: Populism and Prescience in Voices of Protest
  • 3. The End of Reform: A Reconsideration
  • 4. After Reform: The Odyssey of American Liberalism in Liberalism and Its Discontents
  • 5. Objectivity and Its Discontents: Reflections on The Publisher
  • 6. The Liberal's Imagination: "The Problem of American Conservatism" Then and Now
  • 7. Alan Brinkley and the Revival of Political History
  • 8. Houdini, Hip-Hop, and Dystopian Literature: Alan Brinkley's Patterns of Culture
  • 9. The View from the Classroom
  • 10. A Historian and His Publics
  • PART II. Reminiscences
  • 11. The Lost Masterpiece
  • 12. The Skinny One with Glasses and Receding Hairline
  • 13. Lord Root-of-the-Matter
  • 14. Careers in Counterpoint
  • 15. History as a Humanizing Art
  • 16. Two Kids from Chevy Chase
  • Appendix: Transcript of C-SPAN's Booknotes: An Interview Between Host Brian Lamb and Alan Brinkley, August 31, 1993
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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