Author: Reinhard Henry LuthinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
American Demagogues: Twentieth Century. With an Introduction by Allan Nevins
Author: Reinhard Henry LuthinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
American Demagogues: Twentieth Century
Author: Reinhard Henry LuthinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
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American Demagogues
Author: Reinhard Henry LUTHINPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
American demagogues. Twentieth century. With an introd. by A. Nevins
Author: Immersed in Great Affairs
Author: Gerald L. FetnerPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791485668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Immersed in Great Affairs is the first book-length biography of noted historian and journalist Allan Nevins. In a career that spanned nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century, Nevins won two Pulitzer Prizes, helped draft John F. Kennedy's acceptance speech at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, composed the monumental eight-volume history of the American Civil War, Ordeal of the Union, and associated with, among others, Adlai Stevenson, Walter Lippmann, Arthur Schlesinger Sr., Charles Scribner, Abraham Flexner, and John D. Rockefeller Jr. This book traces his beginnings as a journalist in the early 1900s with the New York Evening Post and the New York World through his years as a contributor to the New York Times Magazine. Nevins not only influenced thoughtful, general readers through his articles, editorials, and reviews, but also made a lasting impression on the writing of American history and nurtured a whole generation of young scholars as DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. A narrative historian in an age of growing reliance on social science concepts and theories, Nevins remained committed to telling a story and to using history to teach moral lessons.
The Modern American Political Novel
Author: Joseph BlotnerPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292763670
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Politics, the workings of government and of people in government, has long been a fertile field for exploration by the novelist. The political arena offers many examples of conflict—between individuals, groups, or the individual and the group, or within the individual. It is natural then that a sizable body of fiction has grown up using politics as a main source of action. In this study Joseph Blotner attempts "to discover the image of American poIitics as presented in American novels over a sixty-year span." His major discussion is limited to 138 novels dealing directly with candidates, officeholders, party officials, or "individuals performing political acts as they are conventionally understood." He also refers to nineteenth-century predecessors, European analogues, or other twentieth-century American novels as they bear on his discussions. Blotner gives a thorough examination of certain archetypal figures (the young hero, the political boss, and the Southern demagogue), which appear in central or subordinate positions in the action of many political novels. He finds that the novels reflect certain major movements or upheavals in the political history of the United States or the world (in particular, fascism and McCarthyism), and that they also give the political aspects of universal attitudes or problems (corruption, disillusionment, reaction, and the role of women and of the intellectual). The author presents a detailed analysis of each of these subjects, prefacing each analysis by a survey of the historical background out of which the fiction grew, and including a brief and often pungent assessment of the literary merits of each novel discussed. He also surveys a large body of political fiction which cuts across all of these categories: the novel of the future—both utopian and apocalyptic. The Modern American Political Novel will be of great interest to the student of twentieth-century literature; the political scientist, the sociologist, and even the practicing politician will also find its analyses useful and illuminating.
Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections
Author: Larry SabatoPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438109946
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Presents a complete reference guide to American political parties and elections, including an A-Z listing of presidential elections with terms, people and events involved in the process.
The Western Political Quarterly
Author: The Modern American Political Novel, 1900-1960
Author: Joseph BlotnerPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The political arena offers many examples of conflict-- between individuals, groups, or the individual and the group, or within the individual. It is natural that a sizable body of fiction has grown up using politics as a main source of action.
Handbook of American Popular Culture
Author: M. Thomas IngePublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Library has Volumes 1 and 2.