The American Intellectual Tradition: A SourcebookVolume II: 1865 to the Present - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195077814 ISBN 13: 9780195077810

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Revised and expanded, the second edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology of many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history offers new selections from a diversity of authors; an extensive chronology connecting several hundred important books and essays with events in American and European intellectual, cultural, and political history; and updated bibliographies and headnotes. The anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranged chronologically from the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present. Designed for easy use by a wide range of readers, it is an invaluable reader for anyone interested in intellectual history, American history, American studies, or American literature.
Volume I (to 1865) now offers new selections by Sarah M. Grimké, Horace Bushnell, and Louisa S. McCord, and Volume II (1865-present) now offers new selections by Charles Hodge, Henry Adams, George Santayana, W.E.B. Du Bois, Randolph Bourne, H.L. Mencken, John Crowe Ransom, Meridel Le Sueur, Reinhold Niebuhr, Ralph Ellison, Whittaker Chambers, Betty Friedan, Adrienne Rich, Evelyn Fox Keller, Richard Rorty, and Michael Walzer.

About this title

About the Author:

David A. Hollinger, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley. Charles Capper, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Review:

"I've used both volumes in the past and will continue to do so. I'm especially pleased with the appropriate and timely additions to Vol. II."--Mark Pittenger, University of Colorado

"Selections in this 2nd edition of Vol. II are much up to date and much appreciated. Inclusion of pieces by H.L. Mencken, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Richard Rorty is especially welcome. And as before, the volume contains good essays on pragmatism which are not included in other
anthologies."--Bertil L. Hanson, Oklahoma State University

"To read the selections present here, is to put one's mind in contact with the major influences on American intellectual life."--Nathan Kollan, St. John Fisher College

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0195077814
• ISBN 13: 9780195077810
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Hollinger David A., Capper Charles