Insurrections of the mind : 100 years of politics and culture in America / 100 years of politics and culture in America One hundred years of politics and culture in America Franklin Foer, editor. - First edition. - xxvii, 568 pages ; 21 cm

At head of title: New Republic.

The insurrectionists / The duty of harsh criticism / In a schoolroom / Life is cheap / The future of pacifism / Meditation in E minor / The eclipse of progressivism / Soviet Russia / In Dedham Jail: a visit to Sacco and Vanzetti / The birth-control raid / Progress and poverty / Out of the Red with Roosevelt / The future of democracy / The corruption of liberalism / Thoughts on peace in an air raid / Young man with a horn again / The art of translation / "In every voice, in every ban" / Politics and the English language / Sigmund Freud / Indo-China / Our stake in the state of Israel / Positive thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue / Arthur Miller's conscience / Candidate on the eve: liberalism without tears / A jolly good Fellini / The march on Washington / The war on poverty / Movie brutalists / Power and powerlessness: decline of democratic government / Random murder: the new terrorists / The liberal's dilemma / Protâegâe power / The great Carter mystery / Liberals and deficits / Tory days / Mr. Democrat / Here comes the groom: a (conservative) case for gay marriage / The value of the canon / Highway to hell / The child monarch / After memory / Beyond words / The griz / Les tráes riches heures de Martha Stewart / He is finished / Disgrace / Saint Gerhard of the sorrows of painting / Mad about you: the case for Bush hatred / The limited circle is pure / A fighting faith / American Adam / The idea of ideas / Franklin Foer -- Rebecca West -- Randolph S. Bourne -- Walter Lippmann -- John Dewey -- H.L. Mencken -- Herbert Croly -- John Maynard Keynes -- Bruce Bliven -- Margaret Sanger -- Edmund Wilson -- John Dos Passos -- Benedetto Croce -- Lewis Mumford -- Virginia Woolf -- Otis Ferguson -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Alfred Kazin -- George Orwell -- W.H. Auden -- Graham Greene -- Reinhold Niebuhr -- Philip Roth -- Richard Rovere -- James MacGregor Burns -- Stanley Kaufman -- Murray Kempton -- Gunnar Myrdal -- Pauline Kael -- Hans J. Morgenthau -- Michale Walzer -- Daniel P. Moynihan -- Nicholas Lemann -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- Michael Kinsley -- Henry Fairlie -- Michael Kinsley -- Andrew Sullivan -- Irving Howe -- Michael Kelly -- Hendrik Hertzberg -- Leon Wieseltier -- Fouad Ajami -- Michael Lewis -- Margaret Talbot -- James Wood -- Jeffrey Rosen -- Jed Perl -- Jonathan Chait -- Zadie Smith -- Peter Beinart -- John B. Judis -- Leon Wieseltier -- Introduction: 1910s. 1920s. 1930s. 1940s. 1950s. 1960s. 1970s. 1980s. 1990s. 2000s.

Essays collected from ten decades of the New Republic explore pivotal issues of modern America.

9780062340399 (pbk.) 0062340395 (pbk.)


New republic (New York, N.Y.)


Liberalism--History.--United States
Liberalismo--Historia--Estados Unidos.
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United States--Politics and government--History.
United States--Social conditions--History.
Estados Unidos--Política y gobierno
Estados Unidos--Condiciones sociales

JC 574.2 / I59 2014

320.5/130973