Alan Brinkley : a life in history /
"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--serious and...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: A Career in Full, by Eric Foner; Part I.A Historian's Work; 1. A Personal History, by Elly Brinkley; 2. The "Dissident Ideology" Revisited: Populism and Prescience in Voices of Protest, by Moshik Temkin; 3. The End of Reform: A Reconsideration, by Mason B. Williams; 4. After Reform: The Odyssey of American Liberalism in Liberalism and Its Discontents, by David Greenberg; 5. Objectivity and Its Discontents: Reflections on The Publisher, by Nicole Hemmer
- 6. The Liberal's Imagination: "The Problem of American Conservatism" Then and Now, by Jefferson Decker7. Alan Brinkley and the Revival of Political History, by Matthew Dallek; 8. Houdini, Hip-Hop, and Dystopian Literature: Alan Brinkley's Patterns of Culture, by Sharon Ann Musher; 9. The View from the Classroom, by Michael W. Flamm; 10. A Historian and His Publics, by Nicholas Lemann; Part II. Reminiscences; 11. The Lost Masterpiece, by A. Scott Berg; 12. The Skinny One with Glasses and Receding Hairline, by Nancy Weiss Malkiel; 13. Lord Root-of-the-Matter, by Jonathan Alter
- 14. Careers in Counterpoint, by Lizabeth Cohen15. History as a Humanizing Art, by Ira Katznelson; 16. Two Kids from Chevy Chase, by Frank Rich; Appendix: Transcript of C-SPAN's Booknotes: An Interview Between Host Brian Lamb and Alan Brinkley, August 31, 1993; Notes; Contributors; Index