Howard Brick

University of Michigan | U-M · Department of History

How are we to grasp the genealogy of the "public intellectual"? When, how, and at whose hands did this term first come into use, framing an ideal of democratic responsibility for those who devote their work life to fostering knowledge and criticism'an image usually raised as a reproach to academic insularity though also sometimes assailed for encou...

* Preface * The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt * The New Deal Experiments * The Late New Deal and the Idea of the State * The New Deal and Southern Politics * The Two World Wars and American Liberalism * Legacies of World War II * Historians and the Interwar Years * Hofstadter's The Age of Reform Reconsidered * Robert Penn Warren, Tarry Williams, and H...

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