Alan Brinkley (eBook)

A Life in History

David Greenberg, Moshik Temkin, Mason B. Williams (Herausgeber)

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2019
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54716-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book brings together essays on Alan Brinkley's major works and ideas as well as personal reminiscences from leading historians and thinkers beyond the academy. They chronicle the life and thought of a working historian, the development of historical scholarship in our time, and the role that history plays in our public life.

GreenbergDavid:

David Greenberg is a professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. His books include Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image (Norton, 2003); Calvin Coolidge (Times Books, 2006); and Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency (Norton, 2016).TemkinMoshik:

Moshik Temkin is an associate professor of history and public policy at Harvard University. He is the author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial (Yale University Press, 2009).WilliamsMason B.:

Mason Williams is an assistant professor of history at Albright College. He is the author of City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York (Norton, 2013).David Greenberg, a historian of American politics, teaches at Rutgers University. His latest book is Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency (2016).
Moshik Temkin is associate professor of history and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial (2011).
Mason B. Williams is assistant professor of leadership studies and political science at Williams College and the author of City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York (2013).

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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 serious and original treatments of populist dissent, the role of mass media, the struggles of liberalism and conservatism, and the powers and limits of the presidency. A longtime professor at Harvard University and Columbia University, Brinkley has shaped the field of U.S. history for generations of students through his textbooks and his mentorship of some of today's foremost historians.Alan Brinkley: A Life in History brings together essays on his major works and ideas, as well as personal reminiscences from leading historians and thinkers beyond the academy whom Brinkley collaborated with, befriended, and influenced. Among the luminaries in this volume are the critic Frank Rich, the journalists Jonathan Alter and Nicholas Lemann, the biographer A. Scott Berg, and the historians Eric Foner and Lizabeth Cohen. Together, the seventeen essays that form this book chronicle the life and thought of a working historian, the development of historical scholarship in our time, and the role that history plays in our public life. At a moment when Americans are pondering the plight of their democracy, this volume offers a timely overview of a consummate student-and teacher-of the American political tradition.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsForeword: A Career in Full, by Eric FonerPart I. A Historian’s Work1. A Personal History, by Elly Brinkley2. The “Dissident Ideology” Revisited: Populism and Prescience in Voices of Protest, by Moshik Temkin3. The End of Reform: A Reconsideration, by Mason B. Williams4. After Reform: The Odyssey of American Liberalism in Liberalism and Its Discontents, by David Greenberg5. Objectivity and Its Discontents: Reflections on The Publisher, by Nicole Hemmer6. 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 Dallek8. Houdini, Hip-Hop, and Dystopian Literature: Alan Brinkley’s Patterns of Culture, by Sharon Ann Musher9. The View from the Classroom, by Michael W. Flamm10. A Historian and His Publics, by Nicholas LemannPart II. Reminiscences11. The Lost Masterpiece, by A. Scott Berg12. The Skinny One with Glasses and Receding Hairline, by Nancy Weiss Malkiel13. Lord Root-of-the-Matter, by Jonathan Alter14. Careers in Counterpoint, by Lizabeth Cohen15. History as a Humanizing Art, by Ira Katznelson16. Two Kids from Chevy Chase, by Frank RichAppendix: Transcript of C-SPAN’s Booknotes: An Interview Between Host Brian Lamb and Alan Brinkley, August 31, 1993NotesContributorsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2019
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54716-1 / 0231547161
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54716-1 / 9780231547161