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- catalog abstract "Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-98) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College and was a pioneer in the field of American studies. But Commager's work was by no means confined to the halls of the university: a popular essayist, lecturer, and political commentator, he earned a reputation as an activist for liberal causes and waged public campaigns against McCarthyism in the 1950s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s. In this book, Neil Jumonville uses Commager's career to explore a number of themes central to the intellectual history of postwar America. Examining the relationship between the midcentury generation of scholars and the baby boomer generation now in the university, he reassesses the legacy of the 1940s and 1950s and illuminates the background of the culture wars of today. He also offers a reevaluation of the ideas in the liberalism of the period, including a common American identity and shared culture, pragmatism, compromise, freedom of speech, and the benefits of at least a modest consensus on goals - ideas that in recent years have taken quite a beating in the public arena.".
- catalog contributor b11067156.
- catalog coverage "United States Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-98) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College and was a pioneer in the field of American studies. But Commager's work was by no means confined to the halls of the university: a popular essayist, lecturer, and political commentator, he earned a reputation as an activist for liberal causes and waged public campaigns against McCarthyism in the 1950s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s. In this book, Neil Jumonville uses Commager's career to explore a number of themes central to the intellectual history of postwar America. Examining the relationship between the midcentury generation of scholars and the baby boomer generation now in the university, he reassesses the legacy of the 1940s and 1950s and illuminates the background of the culture wars of today. He also offers a reevaluation of the ideas in the liberalism of the period, including a common American identity and shared culture, pragmatism, compromise, freedom of speech, and the benefits of at least a modest consensus on goals - ideas that in recent years have taken quite a beating in the public arena.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-317) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Intellectuals and Historians. 1. The Formation of a Public Intellectual, 1902-1932. 2. Philosophy Teaching by Experience, 1928-1936. 3. Columbia and New York in the Forties, 1938-1950 -- pt. II. Freedom and the American Century. 4. Protecting Liberalism in World War II, 1939-1947. 5. Anticommunism and McCarthyism, 1945-1960. 6. University, Family, and Race, 1945-1968. 7. The Call to Political Morality, 1964-1974 -- pt. III. The Meaning of the American Past. 8. The Character and Myth of Historians at Midcentury, 1937-1997. 9. Liberals and the Historical Past, 1948-1997. 10. Legacies, 1971-1997.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 328 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Henry Steele Commager.".
- catalog identifier "0807824488 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Henry Steele Commager.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Henry Steele Commager.".
- catalog spatial "United States Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.9/092 21".
- catalog subject "Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.".
- catalog subject "E175.5.C73 J86 1999".
- catalog subject "Historians United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Historians United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Liberalism United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Political activists United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Intellectuals and Historians. 1. The Formation of a Public Intellectual, 1902-1932. 2. Philosophy Teaching by Experience, 1928-1936. 3. Columbia and New York in the Forties, 1938-1950 -- pt. II. Freedom and the American Century. 4. Protecting Liberalism in World War II, 1939-1947. 5. Anticommunism and McCarthyism, 1945-1960. 6. University, Family, and Race, 1945-1968. 7. The Call to Political Morality, 1964-1974 -- pt. III. The Meaning of the American Past. 8. The Character and Myth of Historians at Midcentury, 1937-1997. 9. Liberals and the Historical Past, 1948-1997. 10. Legacies, 1971-1997.".
- catalog title "Henry Steele Commager : midcentury liberalism and the history of the present / Neil Jumonville.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".