The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type
"Extraordinarily creative . . . an important and engrossing contribution to a complex and elusive subject."—Newsweek

Around the turn of the century, the American liberal tradition made a major shift away from politics. The new radicals were more interested in the reform of education, culture, and sexual mores. Through vivid biographies, Christopher Lasch chronicles these social reformers from Jane Addams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Lincoln Steffens to Norman Mailer and Dwight MacDonald.
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The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type
"Extraordinarily creative . . . an important and engrossing contribution to a complex and elusive subject."—Newsweek

Around the turn of the century, the American liberal tradition made a major shift away from politics. The new radicals were more interested in the reform of education, culture, and sexual mores. Through vivid biographies, Christopher Lasch chronicles these social reformers from Jane Addams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Lincoln Steffens to Norman Mailer and Dwight MacDonald.
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The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type

The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type

by Christopher Lasch
The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type

The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type

by Christopher Lasch

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"Extraordinarily creative . . . an important and engrossing contribution to a complex and elusive subject."—Newsweek

Around the turn of the century, the American liberal tradition made a major shift away from politics. The new radicals were more interested in the reform of education, culture, and sexual mores. Through vivid biographies, Christopher Lasch chronicles these social reformers from Jane Addams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Lincoln Steffens to Norman Mailer and Dwight MacDonald.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393316964
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 12/17/1997
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 380
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Christopher Lasch (1932–1994), professor of history at the University of Rochester, wrote, among many other works, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics and the best-selling Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.
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