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An intellectual in public
- Author / Creator
- Summary
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Unforgettable observations on key issues from a leading authority on contemporary American culture.
Details
- Creator
- Alan Wolfe
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (386 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780472024278, 0472024272, 0472098659, 9780472098651, 9780472068654, 0472068652, 9780472068654
- OCLC
- ocn651657311
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-386).
- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Country -- Alien Nation -- Strangled by Roots -- Anti-American Studies -- Part II: God -- The Return of Evil -- The Hermeneutic Hole -- White Magic in America -- Faith and Diversity in American Religion -- Higher Learning -- Part III: Race -- Climbing the Mountain -- The Facts and the Feelings -- Margaret Mead Goes to Harlem -- Affirmative Action, Incorporated -- Part IV: Schools -- The Jeremiah Racket -- Subject Matter Matters -- Part V: Sex -- The Mystique of Betty Friedan
- The Professor of DesireUp from Scientism -- Part VI: Consumption -- Undialectical Materialism -- Buying Alone -- The Greening of Conservatism -- Part VII: Left and Right -- The Snake -- The Revolution That Never Was -- Idiot Time -- Conclusion -- The Fame Game -- The Calling of the Public Intellectual -- Books Discussed