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Commager, Henry Steele - kŏmˈĭjər, 1902–98, American historian, b. Pittsburgh, Pa. He received his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Chicago in 1928 and taught history at New York Univ. (1926–38), Columbia (1938–56), and Amherst (1956–94). He was an outspoken opponent of both McCarthyism (see McCarthy, Joseph R.) and the Vietnam War. His writings

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Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present » Read Now
by Neil Jumonville. 328 pgs.

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Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College and was a pioneer in the field of American...
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Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College and was a pioneer in the field of American studies. But Commager's work was by no means confined to the halls of the university: a popular essayist, lecturer, and political commentator, he earned a reputation as an activist for liberal causes and waged public campaigns against McCarthyism in the 1950s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s. As few have been able to do in the past half-century, Commager united the two worlds of scholarship and public intellectual activity.
Through Commager's life and legacy, Neil Jumonville explores a number of questions central to the intellectual history of postwar America. After considering whether Commager and his associates were really the conservative and conformist group that critics have assumed them to be, Jumonville offers a reevaluation of the liberalism of the period. Finally, he uses Commager's example to ask whether intellectual life is truly compatible with scholarly life.
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Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent » Read Now
by Henry Steele Commager. 172 pgs.

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Theodore Parker » Read Now
by Henry Steele Commager. 388 pgs.

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Recasting: Gone with the Wind in American Culture ("The Civil War in Georgia's Red Clay Hills" by Henry Steele Commager begins on p. 11) » Read Now
by Darden Asbury Pyron. 246 pgs.

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This collection of essays comments on the pre-World War II culture of the United States, when David O. Selznick produced
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Understanding the American Past: American History and Its Interpretation ("American Character" by Henry Steele Commager begins on p. 562) » Read Now
by Edward N. Saveth. 639 pgs.

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The Constitution Reconsidered ("Constitutional History and the Higher Law" by Henry Steele Commager begins on p. 225) » Read Now
by Conyers Read. 452 pgs.

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Howells: A Century of Criticism ("For Fifty Years a Literary Dynamo: A Review of Howells by Van Wyck Brooks" by Henry Steele Commager begins on p. 231) » Read Now
by Kenneth E. Eble. 260 pgs.

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