This book chronicles the interesting, flawed and persistent phenomenon - the American Left. The book suggests that the American left actually comprises the Lyrical Left of World War I, the Old Left of the late 1920s and the 1930s, the New Left of the 1960s and now, the Academic Left. Diggins argues that however irrelevant the Left may seem in ...
A reassessment of American history, emphasizing the foundational role of Abraham Lincoln's moral and political theory. John Patrick Diggins argues that in the central tenets of Lincoln's political faith, we find the purest expression of the values that have guided American history.
Ever since World War II, Max Weber has functioned as a kind of monument to the most conservative and conventional orthodoxies of the social science establishments. John Patrick Diggins uncovers another Weber: one influenced by Nietzsche, one whose deep belief in individualism bound him close to the Emersonian tradition in America, one with a ...
The American President series continues with this revealing look at John Adams, who took office amid the birth of the government and multiple crises in 1797, who went on to create the Department of the Navy, and who left a solvent treasury when his term was completed.
The Lost Soul of American Politics is a provocative new interpretation of American political thought from the Founding Fathers to the Neo-Conservatives. Reassessing the motives and intentions of such great political thinkers as Madison, Thoreau, Lincoln, and Emerson, John P. Diggins shows how these men struggled to create an alliance between the ...
Fired by Stanford and the University of Chicago but recommended by his peers to the presidency of the American Economic Association, Thorstein Veblen remains a baffling figure. In part because he was an eccentric who shunned publicity. Veblen is best known to the public as coiner of the term "conspicuous consumption", and known to scholars as one ...
For much of the 20th century, pragmatism has held the dominant point of view in American politics, law, education and social thought in general. After suffering a brief eclipse in the post-World War II period, pragmatism has experienced a revival, especially in literary theory and such areas as poststructuralism and deconstruction. In this ...
From Pearl Harbor to the election of John F. Kennedy, America witnessed--and caused--great change both at home and abroad. No two decades so reveal the heart of America as the 1940s and 1950s; no period has been as important in creating the conditions that govern our lives today.
From Pearl Harbor to the election of John F. Kennedy, the forties and the fifties reveal the heart of America. Diggins provides a history of the two decades that remade America and its place in the world. Photos and maps.
In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his works resonated with ...
This study explains how the radical experience of a generation of writers influenced the cultural and political climate of post-World War II USA and provided much of the conservative rationale for the early years of the Cold War. Focusing on the careers of four writers who moved from communism to conservatism - Max Eastman, John Dos Passos, James ...
Twenty of today's most eminent historians here join forces to explore Schlesinger's unique brand of liberalism - one that has steered clear of ideological extremism and social fragmentation, favouring instead pluralism and the pragmatic use of state power.
In addition to being an uncompromising defender of liberty, esteemed diplomat, and successor to George Washington, John Adams was a passionate and prolific writer. Adams biographer John Patrick Diggins gathers an impressive variety of his works in this compact, original volume, including parts of his diary and autobiography, and selections from ...
Following his departure from office, says John Patrick Diggins in this re-evaluation of the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan was marginalised thanks to liberal biases that dominate the teaching of American history. Yet Reagan, like Lincoln (who was also attacked for decades after his death), deserves to be regarded as one of ...
Profiles John Adams as an ideal successor to Washington, citing the qualities of his character and Federalist policies that enabled him to address the challenges that took place during his presidency.
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