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The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age

The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age

American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s

Richard H. Pells

Sales Date: 1989-09-01

488 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

Paperback
9780819562258

$29.95

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Contents
Authors
Praise

Preface
Introduction to the Wesleyan Edition
The Intellectuals at War
The Shattered Peace
Accommodation and Ambivalence Political and Economic Thought in the Cold War Years
Conformity and Alienation: Social Criticism in the 1950's
Are You Now, Have You Ever Been, and Will You Ever Give Us the Names of Those Who Were?
Endings and Beginnings: The Mood of the Late 1950's
Epilogue: The Legacy of the Postwar Years
Notes
Bibliography
Index

RICHARD H. PELLS is a graduate of Rutgers University (B.A., 1963) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1969). Now professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, he has taught at Harvard, received a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities fellowship, and has been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a Fulbright-Hays Senior Lecturer at the universities of Amsterdam and Copenhagen. He is also the author of Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years (Wesleyan, 1984). He lives in Austin.

"The New York intellectuals are fortunate this time out in being in the hands of a chronicler who grinds no axes o their reputations and does them the courtesy of close if sometimes critical readings."
~Walter Goodman, The New York Times

""[This book] contains perceptive discussions of major thinkers and intellectual movements.""
~Christopher Lasch, Journal of American History

""Without question this is a significant work of scholarship by a serious and able historian. It will certainly long stand as an interpretive work to be reckoned with as our understanding of the early post-war period continues to evolve""
~Paul Boyer, Reviews in American History

""The New York intellectuals are fortunate this time out in being in the hands of a chronicler who grinds no axes o their reputations and does them the courtesy of close if sometimes critical readings.""
~Walter Goodman, The New York Times