In search of a democratic America : the writings of Randolph S. Bourne / edited by Martin S. Sheffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sheffer, Martin S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bourne, Randolph Silliman, 1886-1918.

Bourne, Randolph Silliman.

United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.

United States.

Politics and government.

United States--Intellectual life--1865-1918.

Intellectual life.

Radicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 199 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2002]

Summary:

The America Randolph Silliman Bourne searched for his entire life--but never found--was an America in which the institutions of democratic government remained responsive to the needs of all. A progressive in the age of progressivism, Bourne fully understood John Jay's dictum that the United States "should be governed by the people who own it." The Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, and the Dial were the forum for Bourne's social commentary during a brief career that lasted from 1912 to 1918. In Search of a Democratic America offers the best of Bourne's writings on politics, religion, education, philosophy, society, and youth. The readings, and commentary, reveal the literary radical and social critic in his true guise as a spokesman for liberal democracy, a democratic theorist who strove for a modern, industrial, multi-ethnic nation peopled by the intelligent, the caring, and the concerned.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739103660

OCLC:

50225101