"Historians Food supply 20th century Biography United States." . . "Geschiedschrijving." . . "HISTORY." . . . . "Intellectual life" . . "Intellectuels Activité politique États-Unis 20e siècle Biographies." . . "Historians United States." . . "United States" . . "United States." . "Political activists United States Biography." . . "Political activists." . . "Political activists" . "Liberalism United States History 20th century." . . "Electronic books." . . "Liberalism History 20th century Biography United States." . . "Biografie." . . "Biographie." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical." . . "Geestesgeschiedenis." . . "Historians United States History 20th century." . . "Verenigde Staten." . . "Political activists Food supply 20th century Biography United States." . . "Historians United States Biography." . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Historiographie États-Unis 20e siècle Biographies." . . "Historians History 20th century Biography United States." . . "Liberalism." . . "Liberalism" . . "Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-98) 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. In this book, Neil Jumonville uses Commager's career to explore a number of themes central to the intellectual history of postwar America. Examining the relationship between the midcentury generation of scholars and the baby boomer generation now in the university, he reassesses the legacy of the 1940s and 1950s and illuminates the background of the culture wars of today. He also offers a reevaluation of the ideas in the liberalism of the period, including a common American identity and shared culture, pragmatism, compromise, freedom of speech, and the benefits of at least a modest consensus on goals - ideas that in recent years have taken quite a beating in the public arena."@en . "Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-98) 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. In this book, Neil Jumonville uses Commager's career to explore a number of themes central to the intellectual history of postwar America. Examining the relationship between the midcentury generation of scholars and the baby boomer generation now in the university, he reassesses the legacy of the 1940s and 1950s and illuminates the background of the culture wars of today. He also offers a reevaluation of the ideas in the liberalism of the period, including a common American identity and shared culture, pragmatism, compromise, freedom of speech, and the benefits of at least a modest consensus on goals - ideas that in recent years have taken quite a beating in the public arena." . "History"@en . "History" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Biografieën (vorm)" . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . "Henry Steele Commager : midcentury liberalism and the history of the present" . . . . . . . . . . "Henry Steele Commager midcentury liberalism and the history of the present"@en . "Henry Steele Commager midcentury liberalism and the history of the present" . "Biography" . . "Biography"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Political activists United States." . . "Henry Steele@Commager*1902-1998*" . . "États-Unis" . . "Historians." . . "Historians" .