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Title: The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook, 1630-1865 (American Intellectual Tradition) by David A. Hollinger, Charles Capper ISBN: 0-19-513720-5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Compendium of American Thought
Comment: This volume by Hollinger and Capper is the first of two in their ambitious goal to "round up" and compile a representative sampling of documents in American Intellectual History. They succeed brilliantly.
Volume I logically starts with the Pilgrims and ends with the Civil War and is divided neatly into component chapters with contributions from John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards ("Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is just breathtaking...), Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams (the founding fathers section), on through Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism), to Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to John C. Calhoun, George Fitzhugh, Martin Delaney, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
The editors provide a small biographical sketch of each author that precedes the selection and the selections track a wide range of issues including race relations, relations between the North and the South, the enfranchisement of women, American exceptionalism (Winthrop's "City on a Hill"), the formation of the United States, transcendentalism (the seedling for America's first original philosophy, Pragmatism). These issues are picked up later and expanded (or concluded) in Volume II of the work.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Compendium of American Thought
Comment: Volume II of Hollinger and Capper's work is as excellent as the first.
Volume II contains contributions from American writers such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan Sontag, Malcolm X, Rienhold Niebuhr, Noam Chomsky, John Crowe Ransom, Betty Friedan, John Dewey, W.E.B. DuBois, H.L. Mencken, Jane Addams, Woodrow Wilson, Samuel Huntington, etc.
Volume II traces the developments of race relations in America, the advancement of minorities and women in America, American foreign relations, insight into the state of the South after the Civil War, the effect of transportation revolutions on interstate travel as well as traces the development of Pragmatism, America's contribution to the world of Philosophy from Charles Sanders Peirce to William James to Thomas Kuhn to Richard Rorty.
Simply put, the topical treatment of this work is first rate and the collection of these various works is a creditable contribution to the field of American Intellectual History.
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Title: The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury by Mary F. Corey ISBN: 0674002083 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 04 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Companion to American Thought by Richard Wrightman Fox, James T. Kloppenberg ISBN: 0631206566 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man by Henry Louis, Jr. Gates ISBN: 0679776664 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets) by Allen Ginsberg ISBN: 0872860175 Publisher: City Lights Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1956 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff ISBN: 0226467716 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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