An intellectual in public
By: Alan Wolfe.
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Social problems -- United States.; Political culture -- United States.; Right and left (Political science); United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-; United States -- Intellectual life.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Description: "In this new collection of essays spanning seven years of contributions to The New Republic, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and other prominent publications, Wolfe displays the courage necessary to write honestly - yet free of ideology, cant, and piety - about the things Americans take very seriously." "Wolfe thinks big; indeed, the essays in An Intellectual in Public confront many of the most controversial issues of our time: country, God, race, sex, material consumption, and left and right. Beginning and ending the book are original essays describing the public intellectual's role, and how Wolfe believes that role ought to be filled."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-386).