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1 online resource (171 pages) |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The uselessness of American intellectuals -- Be free!: globalism and democratic pedagogy in Henry James and Henry Adams -- World War I and the origins of the national security state: Mary Antin, Randolph Bourne, and Emma Goldman -- Mary McCarthy's swizzle sticks: food, drink, and consumerism in the American depression -- Herman Melville's Cold War: re-reading C. L. R. James's mariners, renegades, and castaways -- Turning poetry into bread: Langston Hughes, travel-writing, and the professionalization of African-American literary production -- Legacies of the new left: Paul Goodman, C. Wright Mills, and Angela Davis -- Conclusion: Thought during wartime: American public intellectuals in the twenty-first century. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Intellectuals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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War and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Dissenters -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Criticism -- History -- 20th century.
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Radicals -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Redding, Arthur F. Radical legacies : twentieth century public intellectuals in the United States. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016] |
| ISBN |
9781498512664 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781498512688 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781498512671 (e-book) |
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