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Beyond The Revolution : A History Of American Thought From Paine To Pragmatism

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William H. Goetzmann
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Book, Basic Books, 2009
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Goetzmann tells the story of America?s greatest thinkers and creators, from Paine and Jefferson to Melville and William James, showing how they built upon and battled one another?s ideas in the critical years between 1776 and 1900. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Philosophy, American · History · Political science · United States · Intellectuals · Biography · Philosophers · Political scientists · Intellectual life · Goetzmann, William H
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(LOWER LEVEL) E169.1 .G55 2009 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E169.1 .G55 2009	AVAILABLE

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Banquet At Delmonico’s : How Evolution Conquered Gilded Age America

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Barry Werth
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Book, 1st ed, Random House, 2009
Description
As this justification took root as a social, economic, and ethical doctrine, Spencer won numerous influential American disciples and allies, including industrialist Andrew Carnegie, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and political reformer Carl Schurz. In late 1882, most of the main figures who brought about and popularized these developments gathered at Delmonico?s, New York?s most venerable restaurant, in an exclusive farewell dinner to honor Spencer and to toast the social applications of the theory of evolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Spencer, Herbert, · 1820-1903 · Influence · Delmonico’s Restaurant (New York, N.Y.) · History · 19th century · Social Darwinism · United States · 19th century · Human evolution · Social aspects · Social change · Dinners and dining · New York (State) · New York · Intellectuals · Biography · Intellectual life · Social conditions · 1865-1918 · Social life and customs · Werth, Barry
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(LOWER LEVEL) HM631 .W47 2009 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HM631 .W47 2009	AVAILABLE

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The Truth Of Power : Intellectual Affairs In The Clinton White House

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Benjamin R. Barber
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Book, 1st ed, W.W. Norton, 2001
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Ideas and the presidency flirt with each other, but can they really get along? A lively personal portrait of a president in action on the field of ideas, The Truth of Power is an important contribution to the history and the philosophy of the presidency. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Clinton, Bill, · 1946- · Knowledge and learning · Friends and associates · Presidents · United States · Biography · Intellectual life · Intellectuals · History · 20th century · Executive power · Case studies · Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E886.2 .B37 2001 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E886.2 .B37 2001	AVAILABLE

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Out Of Place : A Memoir

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Edward W. Said
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Book, 1st ed, Knopf, 1999
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Out of Place is an extraordinary story of exile, a narrative of many departures, a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this memoir he rediscovers the Arab landscape of his early years–”the many places and people [who] no longer exist . Said writes with great passion and wit about his family and his friends–from schools in Cairo and summers in the mountains above Beirut to, as he grew older, camp in Maine, boarding school in Massachusetts, and college at Princeton University. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Said, Edward W · Palestinian Americans · United States · Biography · Intellectuals · Said, Edward W
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(LOWER LEVEL) E184.P35 S25 1999 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E184.P35 S25 1999	AVAILABLE

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Ex-friends : Falling Out With Allen Ginsberg, Lionel & Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, And Norman Mailer

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Norman Podhoretz
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Book, Free Press, 1999
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Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer — all are ex-friends of Norman Podhoretz, the renowned editor and critic and leading member of the group of New York intellectuals who came to be known as “the Family.” Reading of a time when the finest minds of a generation regularly gathered in New York living rooms to debate one another with an articulateness, a passion, and a level of erudition almost extinct, we come to realize how enviable it can be to live a life as poignantly and purposefully examined as Norman Podhoretz’s is in Ex-Friends. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Podhoretz, Norman · Friends and associates · Politics and literature · United States · History · 20th century · Authors, American · 20th century · Biography · Intellectuals · Critics · Intellectual life · Podhoretz, Norman
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS29.P63 A3 1999 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS29.P63 A3 1999	AVAILABLE

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan : The Intellectual In Public Life

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edited by Robert A. Katzmann
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Book, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1998
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One of the most distinguished figures in twentieth-century American politics, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was at the center of virtually every major political issue of his day, offering a distinct voice unique in its prescience, scholarliness, and statesmanlike manner. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Moynihan, Daniel P. · (Daniel Patrick), · 1927- · Congresses · Political and social views · Legislators · United States · Biography · Ambassadors · Intellectuals · Katzmann, Robert A
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(LOWER LEVEL) E840.8.M68 D36 1998 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E840.8.M68 D36 1998	AVAILABLE

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Mary Moody Emerson And The Origins Of Transcendentalism : A Family History

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Phyllis Cole
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Book, Oxford University Press, 1998
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Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the “eccentric Calvinist aunt” of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wearing a death-shroud as her daily garment. Cole’s pioneering study, tracing crucial lines of influence from Mary Emerson’s heretofore unknown texts to her nephew’s major works, establishes a fresh and vital source for a central American literary tradition. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Emerson, Mary Moody, · 1774-1863 · Emerson, Ralph Waldo, · 1803-1882 · Influence · Emerson family · Intellectuals · New England · Biography · Women intellectuals · Transcendentalism · Intellectual life · 19th century · United States · 1783-1865 · Cole, Phyllis
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(LOWER LEVEL) F8 .C67 1998 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F8 .C67 1998	AVAILABLE

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The House Of Percy : Honor, Melancholy, And Imagination In A Southern Family

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Bertram Wyatt-Brown
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Book, Oxford University Press, 1994
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The Percy family roots in Mississippi and Louisiana go back to “Don Carlos” Percy, an eighteenth-century soldier of fortune who amassed a large estate but fell victim to mental disorder and suicide. Wyatt-Brown then chronicles the life of Senator LeRoy Percy, whose climactic re-election loss in 1911 to a racist demagogue deply stung the family pride, but inspired his bold defiance to the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. The weight of this family narrative found expression in Will Percy’s memoirs, Lanterns on the Levee–and in the works of Walker Percy, who was reared in his cousin Will’s Greenville home after the suicidal death of Walker’s father and his mother’s drowning. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Percy, Walker, · 1916- · Biography · Percy, William Alexander, · 1885-1942 · Dorsey, Sarah A. · (Sarah Anne), · 1829-1879 · Dorsey, Sarah, · Percy family · Percy (Family) · Authors, American · Southern States · Intellectuals · Families · Social life · United States · Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1932-
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(LOWER LEVEL) CT274.P48 W93 1994 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	CT274.P48 W93 1994	AVAILABLE

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The Moment Of Decision : Biographical Essays On American Character And Regional Identity

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edited by Randall M. Miller & John R. McKivigan
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Book, Greenwood Press, 1994
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Focusing primarily on 19th-century social reform, political issues, or intellectual issues, the essays in this collection all consider the “historical moment” in the lives of representative 19th-century, and one family of 19th- and 20th-century, Americans. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Decision making · Social aspects · United States · History · 19th century · Social reformers · Biography · Intellectuals · 1815-1861 · 1849-1877 · Social conditions · To 1865 · Miller, Randall M · McKivigan, John R., 1949-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E415.8 .M66 1994 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E415.8 .M66 1994	AVAILABLE

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A Rebel In Defense Of Tradition : The Life And Politics Of Dwight Macdonald

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Michael Wreszin
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Book, Basic Books, 1994
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Macdonald, Dwight · Intellectuals · United States · Biography · Wreszin, Michael
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(LOWER LEVEL) E748.M147 W74 1994 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E748.M147 W74 1994	AVAILABLE

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Hungarian Contributions To World Civilization

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Francis S. Wagner
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Book, Alpha Publications, 1977
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Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. · History · Sources · American Philosophical Society. · Civilization · Hungarian influences · Intellectuals · Hungary · Biography · United States · Wagner, Francis S
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(LOWER LEVEL) DB920.5 .W34 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	DB920.5 .W34	AVAILABLE

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The Jameses : A Family Narrative

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R.W.B. Lewis
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Book, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991
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James, Henry, · 1811-1882 · James, William, · 1842-1910 · 1843-1916 · James, Alice, · 1848-1892 · James family · Intellectuals · United States · Biography · Lewis, R. W. B
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(LOWER LEVEL) CT274.J35 L49 1991 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	CT274.J35 L49 1991	AVAILABLE

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A Critical American : The Politics Of Dwight Macdonald

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Stephen J. Whitfield
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Book, Archon Books, 1984
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Macdonald, Dwight · Intellectuals · United States · Biography · Whitfield, Stephen J., 1942-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E748.M147 W48 1984 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E748.M147 W48 1984	AVAILABLE

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The 60s Without Apology

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edited by Sohnya Sayres … [et al.]
Publication Details
Book, University of Minnesota Press in cooperation with Social Text, 1984
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Intellectuals · United States · Biography · Books and reading · Nineteen sixties · Civilization · 1945- · Intellectual life · 20th century · Sayres, Sohnya
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(LOWER LEVEL) E169.12 .A16 1984 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E169.12 .A16 1984	AVAILABLE

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Marcus Garvey, Hero : A First Biography

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Tony Martin
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Book, Majority Press, 1983
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Garvey, Marcus, · 1887-1940 · African Americans · Biography · Intellectuals · United States · Black nationalism · History · 20th century · Martin, Tony, 1942-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E185.97.G3 M365 1983 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E185.97.G3 M365 1983	AVAILABLE

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