The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s - Softcover

Pells, Richard H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819562254 ISBN 13: 9780819562258

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1989

Synopsis

An excellent study of American intellectuals in the 40’s and 50’s.

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Review:

The period between the close of World War II and the American government's full-scale involvement in Vietnam was, we have long been told, a gray one in the annals of political dissent and liberalism. But Richard Pells shows that the times had more to them than a tired acceptance of things as they were. He examines intellectuals of the period--C. Wright Mills, Dwight MacDonald, Arthur Schlesinger, Daniel Boorstin, Hannah Arendt, Norman Mailer, Paul Goodman, and Edmund Wilson among them--who resisted the reigning conservatism through their writings in magazines like Dissent, The New Republic, and Partisan Review. These heroes fought among themselves so much that they could never constitute an organized political body, but they did keep things lively, even if conservative critics were readily able to steamroller them. This is solid social history that turns up several surprises.

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6 x 9 trim. LC 89-14676

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0819562254
• ISBN 13: 9780819562258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 488