Radical legacies : : twentieth century public intellectuals in the United States / / Arthur Redding.

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Place / Publishing House:Lanham : : Lexington Books,, [2016]
2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (171 pages)
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Table of 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.