From the Bronx to Oxford and not quite back / Norman Birnbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birnbaum, Norman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birnbaum, Norman.

Sociologists--Biography.

Sociologists.

College teachers--Biography.

College teachers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 721 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Vellum, an imprint of New Academia Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

"This book is a contribution to the history of the Cold War, Dr. Birnbaum having been a very audible critic of US policy. Even more, it is a study of the role of ideas in politics, and of the adventures and misadventures of three generations of public intellectuals in Europe and the US. The author, now the senior member of the Editorial Board of The Nation, was a founding editor of New Left Review, a member of the Editorial Board of Partisan Review, and a contributor to Trans-Atlantic debate. He is particularly proud of having been barred from the German Democratic Republic in 1986 for assisting some of the dissidents who eventually ended the regime. Dr. Birnbaum?s direct experience of public affairs includes an appointment as Consultant, National Security Council, and advisory roles with the United Auto Workers and Senator Edward Kennedy. He has also been an advisor to the German Trade Union Federation and the Green and Social Democratic Parties, to the French Socialist Party and Spanish Socialist Party, and to the Secretariat for Non-Believers of the Holy See. "--Amazon.

Contents:

The Bronx

Williams College

and a different New York

Return to Williams

Harvard in various forms

Revision Germany

London, part I

London, part II

Oxford, part I

Interim I: the beginnings of a long farewell to Europe

Return to New York

Amherst

The US again

Transatlantic politics

Germans to a different front

My DDR adventure: walled out

or, why I could not visit Stalinism by subway

A routine-ization of history

Georgetown Law Center: a welcoming academic home

The end of a century.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0998643351

9780998643359

9780998643342

0998643343

OCLC:

1012798916