Insurrections of the mind
Subtitle: 100 years of politics and culture in America
By: Franklin Foer, editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780062340405
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions; New republic (New York, N.Y.); Liberalism; History
Other titles: 100 years of politics and culture in America; One hundred years of politics and culture in America
Description: Essays collected from ten decades of the New Republic explore pivotal issues of modern America.
Notes: At head of title: New Republic.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: The insurrectionists  -- Franklin Foer -- 1910s.; title: The duty of harsh criticism  -- Rebecca West; title: In a schoolroom  -- Randolph S. Bourne; title: Life is cheap  -- Walter Lippmann; title: The future of pacifism  -- John Dewey -- 1920s.; title: Meditation in E minor  -- H.L. Mencken; title: The eclipse of progressivism  -- Herbert Croly; title: Soviet Russia  -- John Maynard Keynes; title: In Dedham Jail: a visit to Sacco and Vanzetti  -- Bruce Bliven; title: The birth-control raid  -- Margaret Sanger -- 1930s.; title: Progress and poverty  -- Edmund Wilson; title: Out of the Red with Roosevelt  -- John Dos Passos; title: The future of democracy  -- Benedetto Croce -- 1940s.; title: The corruption of liberalism  -- Lewis Mumford; title: Thoughts on peace in an air raid  -- Virginia Woolf; title: Young man with a horn again  -- Otis Ferguson; title: The art of translation  -- Vladimir Nabokov; title: "In every voice, in every ban"  -- Alfred Kazin; title: Politics and the English language  -- George Orwell -- 1950s.; title: Sigmund Freud  -- W.H. Auden; title: Indo-China  -- Graham Greene; title: Our stake in the state of Israel  -- Reinhold Niebuhr; title: Positive thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue  -- Philip Roth; title: Arthur Miller's conscience  -- Richard Rovere -- 1960s.; title: Candidate on the eve: liberalism without tears  -- James MacGregor Burns; title: A jolly good Fellini  -- Stanley Kaufman; title: The march on Washington  -- Murray Kempton; title: The war on poverty  -- Gunnar Myrdal; title: Movie brutalists  -- Pauline Kael -- 1970s.; title: Power and powerlessness: decline of democratic government  -- Hans J. Morgenthau; title: Random murder: the new terrorists  -- Michale Walzer; title: The liberal's dilemma  -- Daniel P. Moynihan; title: Protégé power  -- Nicholas Lemann -- 1980s.; title: The great Carter mystery  -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; title: Liberals and deficits  -- Michael Kinsley; title: Tory days  -- Henry Fairlie; title: Mr. Democrat  -- Michael Kinsley; title: Here comes the groom: a (conservative) case for gay marriage  -- Andrew Sullivan -- 1990s.; title: The value of the canon  -- Irving Howe; title: Highway to hell  -- Michael Kelly; title: The child monarch  -- Hendrik Hertzberg; title: After memory  -- Leon Wieseltier; title: Beyond words  -- Fouad Ajami; title: The griz  -- Michael Lewis; title: Les très riches heures de Martha Stewart  -- Margaret Talbot; title: He is finished  -- James Wood -- 2000s.; title: Disgrace  -- Jeffrey Rosen; title: Saint Gerhard of the sorrows of painting  -- Jed Perl; title: Mad about you: the case for Bush hatred  -- Jonathan Chait; title: The limited circle is pure  -- Zadie Smith; title: A fighting faith  -- Peter Beinart; title: American Adam  -- John B. Judis; title: The idea of ideas  -- Leon Wieseltier -- Afterword:; title: Mind without silos: the next hundred years -- Chris Hughes.