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Henry Steele Commager : midcentury liberalism and the history of the present /
Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-98) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College and was a pioneer in the field of American studies....
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- I. Intellectuals and Historians
- 1. The Formation of a Public Intellectual, 1902-1932
- Notes
- 2. Philosophy Teaching by Experience, 1928-1936
- Notes
- 3. Columbia and New York in the Forties, 1938-1950
- Notes
- II. Freedom and the American Century
- 4. Protecting Liberalism in World War ii, 1939-1947
- Notes
- 5. Anticommunism and McCarthyism, 1945-1960
- Notes
- 6. University, Family, and Race, 1945-1968
- Notes
- 7. The Call to Political Morality, 1964-1974
- Notes
- III. The Meaning of the American Past.
- 8. The Character and Myth of Historians at Midcentury, 1937-1997
- Notes
- 9. Liberals and the Historical Past, 1948-1997
- Notes
- 10. Legacies, 1971-1997
- Notes
- Notes
- Abbreviations used in the Notes
- Index.