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Insurrections of the mind : 100 years of politics and culture in America

Author: Franklin Foer
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, [2014] ©2014
Edition/Format:   Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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Essays collected from ten decades of the New Republic explore pivotal issues of modern America.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Franklin Foer
ISBN: 0062340409 9780062340405
OCLC Number: 868276377
Notes: At head of title: New Republic.
Description: xxvii, 568 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Introduction: The insurrectionists / Franklin Foer --
1910s. The duty of harsh criticism / Rebecca West --
In a schoolroom / Randolph S. Bourne --
Life is cheap / Walter Lippmann --
The future of pacifism / John Dewey --
1920s. Meditation in E minor / H.L. Mencken --
The eclipse of progressivism / Herbert Croly --
Soviet Russia / John Maynard Keynes --
In Dedham Jail: a visit to Sacco and Vanzetti / Bruce Bliven --
The birth-control raid / Margaret Sanger --
1930s. Progress and poverty / Edmund Wilson --
Out of the Red with Roosevelt / John Dos Passos --
The future of democracy / Benedetto Croce --
1940s. The corruption of liberalism / Lewis Mumford --
Thoughts on peace in an air raid / Virginia Woolf --
Young man with a horn again / Otis Ferguson --
The art of translation / Vladimir Nabokov --
"In every voice, in every ban" / Alfred Kazin --
Politics and the English language / George Orwell --
1950s. Sigmund Freud / W.H. Auden --
Indo-China / Graham Greene --
Our stake in the state of Israel / Reinhold Niebuhr --
Positive thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue / Philip Roth --
Arthur Miller's conscience / Richard Rovere --
1960s. Candidate on the eve: liberalism without tears / James MacGregor Burns --
A jolly good Fellini / Stanley Kaufman --
The march on Washington / Murray Kempton --
The war on poverty / Gunnar Myrdal --
Movie brutalists / Pauline Kael --
1970s. Power and powerlessness: decline of democratic government / Hans J. Morgenthau --
Random murder: the new terrorists / Michale Walzer --
The liberal's dilemma / Daniel P. Moynihan --
Protégé power / Nicholas Lemann --
1980s. The great Carter mystery / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. --
Liberals and deficits / Michael Kinsley --
Tory days / Henry Fairlie --
Mr. Democrat / Michael Kinsley --
Here comes the groom: a (conservative) case for gay marriage / Andrew Sullivan --
1990s. The value of the canon / Irving Howe --
Highway to hell / Michael Kelly --
The child monarch / Hendrik Hertzberg --
After memory / Leon Wieseltier --
Beyond words / Fouad Ajami --
The griz / Michael Lewis --
Les très riches heures de Martha Stewart / Margaret Talbot --
He is finished / James Wood --
2000s. Disgrace / Jeffrey Rosen --
Saint Gerhard of the sorrows of painting / Jed Perl --
Mad about you: the case for Bush hatred / Jonathan Chait --
The limited circle is pure / Zadie Smith --
A fighting faith / Peter Beinart --
American Adam / John B. Judis --
The idea of ideas / Leon Wieseltier --
Afterword: Mind without silos: the next hundred years / Chris Hughes.
Other Titles: 100 years of politics and culture in America
One hundred years of politics and culture in America
Responsibility: Franklin Foer, editor.

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Essays collected from ten decades of the New Republic explore pivotal issues of modern America.

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