Alan Brinkley : a life in history / Moshik Temkin, David Greenberg, Mason B. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenberg, David, 1968- Editor.

Temkin, Moshik, 1971- Editor.

Williams, Mason B., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brinkley, Alan.

Harvard University--Faculty--Biography.

Harvard University.

Columbia University--Faculty--Biography.

Columbia University.

Historians--United States--Biography.

Historians.

College teachers--United States--Biography.

College teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Few American historians of his generation have had as much influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley. His debut work, the National Book Award-winning Voices of Protest, launched a storied career that considered the full spectrum of American political life. His books give serious and original treatments of populist dissent, the role of mass media, the struggles of liberalism and conservatism, and the powers and limits of the presidency. A longtime professor at Harvard University and Columbia University, Brinkley has shaped the field of U.S. history for generations of students through his textbooks and his mentorship of some of today's foremost historians.Alan Brinkley: A Life in History brings together essays on his major works and ideas, as well as personal reminiscences from leading historians and thinkers beyond the academy whom Brinkley collaborated with, befriended, and influenced. Among the luminaries in this volume are the critic Frank Rich, the journalists Jonathan Alter and Nicholas Lemann, the biographer A. Scott Berg, and the historians Eric Foner and Lizabeth Cohen. Together, the seventeen essays that form this book 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. At a moment when Americans are pondering the plight of their democracy, this volume offers a timely overview of a consummate student-and teacher-of the American political tradition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: A Career in Full

1. A Personal History

2. The "Dissident Ideology" Revisited: Populism and Prescience in Voices of Protest

3. The End of Reform: A Reconsideration

4. After Reform: The Odyssey of American Liberalism in Liberalism and Its Discontents

5. Objectivity and Its Discontents: Reflections on The Publisher

6. The Liberal's Imagination: "The Problem of American Conservatism" Then and Now

7. Alan Brinkley and the Revival of Political History

8. Houdini, Hip-Hop, and Dystopian Literature: Alan Brinkley's Patterns of Culture

9. The View from the Classroom

10. A Historian and His Publics

11. The Lost Masterpiece

12. The Skinny One with Glasses and Receding Hairline

13. Lord Root-of-the-Matter

14. Careers in Counterpoint

15. History as a Humanizing Art

16. Two Kids from Chevy Chase

Appendix: Transcript of C-SPAN's Booknotes: An Interview Between Host Brian Lamb and Alan Brinkley, August 31, 1993

Notes

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780231547161

0231547161

OCLC:

1042084032