Author: Alfred Kazin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: everything, writing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1998-05-26
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 0674962370
ISBN-13: 9780674962378

In a collection of lectures, the author recounts his development as a writer, his experiences in wartime England, his exchanges with such literary figures as Hart Crane, Allen Ginsburg, and Flannery O’Connor, and the enduring value of literature. UP.

Author: Alfred Kazin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: procession, american
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0674031431
ISBN-13: 9780674031432

Author: Professor Richard M. Cook
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: biography, kazin, alfred
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0300115059
ISBN-13: 9780300115055

Born in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and one of America’s last great men of letters. Biographer Richard M. Cook provides a portrait of Kazin in his public roles and in his frequently unhappy private life. Drawing on the personal journals Kazin kept for over 60 years, private correspondence, and numerous conversations with Kazin, he uncovers the full story of the lonely, stuttering boy from Jewish Brownsville who became a pioneering criti

Author: Michael Kazin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: history, american, persuasion, populist
Number of Pages: 387
Published: 1998-10
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0801485584
ISBN-13: 9780801485589

"Michael Kazin enables us to begin to understand the way in which populism has changed from a politics of the left to a politics of the right. The important questions raised by the success of the populist right in the United States are illuminated in Kazin’s splendid and timely book."--Thomas Bender, The Nation "Kazin shows populism’s canny ability to mix homespun rhetoric and political savvy. . . . The book explains something very important in American life with scrupulous fairness and a keen eye for the humanizing detail. It is as good a road map as we have to the politics of

Authors:Michael Kazin, Joseph A. McCarti,
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: ideal, history, perspectives, new, americanism
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-04-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0807830100
ISBN-13: 9780807830109

What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation’s rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning. In response to the pervasive vision of Americanism as a battle cry or a smug assumption, this collection of essays stirs up new questions and debates that challenge us to rethink the model currently being exported, too often by force, to the rest of the world.Crafted by a cast of both rising and renowned intellectuals from

Authors:Maurice Isserman, Michael Kazin,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: 1960s, war, civil, divided, america
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-11-18
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0195091906
ISBN-13: 9780195091908

In America Divided, Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin provide the definitive history of the 1960s, in a book that tells a compelling tale filled with fresh and persuasive insights. Ranging from the 1950s right up to the debacle of Watergate, Isserman (a noted historian of the Left) and Kazin (a leading specialist in populist movements) not only recount the public and private actions of the era’s many powerful political figures, but also shed light on the social, cultural, and grassroots political movements of the decade. Indeed, readers will find a seamless narrative that integrates

Authors:Maurice Isserman, Michael Kazin,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: 1960s, war, civil, divided, america
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-02-28
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0195319869
ISBN-13: 9780195319866

America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, Third Edition, is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural history of 1960s America. Written by two top experts on the era--Maurice Isserman, a scholar of the Left, and Michael Kazin, a specialist in Right-wing politics and culture--this book provides a compelling tale of this tumultuous era filled with fresh and persuasive insights. For the third edition the authors have updated the text in light of new research, particularly scholarship on the war in Vietnam. They have also expanded the coverage of youth movements