TY - BOOK AU - Alter,Jonathan AU - Berg,A.Scott AU - Brinkley,Elly AU - Cohen,Lizabeth AU - Dallek,Matthew AU - Decker,Jefferson AU - Flamm,Michael W. AU - Fone,Eric AU - Greenberg,David AU - Hemmer,Nicole AU - Katznelson,Ira AU - Lemann,Nicholas AU - Malkiel,Nancy Weiss AU - Musher,Sharon Ann AU - Rich,Frank AU - Temkin,Moshik AU - Williams,Mason B. TI - Alan Brinkley: A Life in History SN - 9780231187244 AV - E175.5.B79 A43 2019 U1 - 973.07202 23 PY - 2019///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - College teachers KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Historians KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword: A Career in Full --; PART I. A Historian's Work --; 1. A Personal History --; 2. The "Dissident Ideology" Revisited: Populism and Prescience in Voices of Protest --; 3. The End of Reform: A Reconsideration --; 4. After Reform: The Odyssey of American Liberalism in Liberalism and Its Discontents --; 5. Objectivity and Its Discontents: Reflections on The Publisher --; 6. The Liberal's Imagination: "The Problem of American Conservatism" Then and Now --; 7. Alan Brinkley and the Revival of Political History --; 8. Houdini, Hip-Hop, and Dystopian Literature: Alan Brinkley's Patterns of Culture --; 9. The View from the Classroom --; 10. A Historian and His Publics --; PART II. Reminiscences --; 11. The Lost Masterpiece --; 12. The Skinny One with Glasses and Receding Hairline --; 13. Lord Root-of-the-Matter --; 14. Careers in Counterpoint --; 15. History as a Humanizing Art --; 16. Two Kids from Chevy Chase --; Appendix: Transcript of C-SPAN's Booknotes: An Interview Between Host Brian Lamb and Alan Brinkley, August 31, 1993 --; Notes --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Few American historians of his generation have had as much influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley. His debut work, the National Book Award-winning Voices of Protest, launched a storied career that considered the full spectrum of American political life. His books give serious and original treatments of populist dissent, the role of mass media, the struggles of liberalism and conservatism, and the powers and limits of the presidency. A longtime professor at Harvard University and Columbia University, Brinkley has shaped the field of U.S. history for generations of students through his textbooks and his mentorship of some of today's foremost historians.Alan Brinkley: A Life in History brings together essays on his major works and ideas, as well as personal reminiscences from leading historians and thinkers beyond the academy whom Brinkley collaborated with, befriended, and influenced. Among the luminaries in this volume are the critic Frank Rich, the journalists Jonathan Alter and Nicholas Lemann, the biographer A. Scott Berg, and the historians Eric Foner and Lizabeth Cohen. Together, the seventeen essays that form this book chronicle the life and thought of a working historian, the development of historical scholarship in our time, and the role that history plays in our public life. At a moment when Americans are pondering the plight of their democracy, this volume offers a timely overview of a consummate student-and teacher-of the American political tradition UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/gree18724 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231547161 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231547161/original ER -