Greenberg / Temkin / Williams Alan Brinkley

A Life in History
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54716-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenberg, David

Temkin, Moshik

Williams, Mason B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Foreword: A Career in Full, by Eric Foner
Part I. A Historian’s Work
1. A Personal History, by Elly Brinkley
2. The “Dissident Ideology” Revisited: Populism and Prescience in Voices of Protest, by Moshik Temkin
3. The End of Reform: A Reconsideration, by Mason B. Williams
4. After Reform: The Odyssey of American Liberalism in Liberalism and Its Discontents, by David Greenberg
5. Objectivity and Its Discontents: Reflections on The Publisher, by Nicole Hemmer
6. The Liberal’s Imagination: “The Problem of American Conservatism” Then and Now, by Jefferson Decker
7. Alan Brinkley and the Revival of Political History, by Matthew Dallek
8. Houdini, Hip-Hop, and Dystopian Literature: Alan Brinkley’s Patterns of Culture, by Sharon Ann Musher
9. The View from the Classroom, by Michael W. Flamm
10. A Historian and His Publics, by Nicholas Lemann
Part II. Reminiscences
11. The Lost Masterpiece, by A. Scott Berg
12. The Skinny One with Glasses and Receding Hairline, by Nancy Weiss Malkiel
13. Lord Root-of-the-Matter, by Jonathan Alter
14. Careers in Counterpoint, by Lizabeth Cohen
15. History as a Humanizing Art, by Ira Katznelson
16. Two Kids from Chevy Chase, by Frank Rich
Appendix: Transcript of C-SPAN’s Booknotes: An Interview Between Host Brian Lamb and Alan Brinkley, August 31, 1993
Notes
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Greenberg David:
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).Temkin Moshik:
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).Williams Mason 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).