United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Incoming Resources
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- Soldiers of reason, the Rand Corporation and the rise of the American empire, Alex Abella
- Soul of a people, the WPA Writer's Project uncovers Depression America, David A. Taylor
- American smoke, journeys to the end of the light : a fiction of memory, Iain Sinclair
- Imagine nation, the American counterculture of the 1960s and '70s, edited by Peter Braunstein and Michael William Doyle
- Color & culture, Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual, Ross Posnock
- A chance meeting, American encounters, by Rachel Cohen
- A futile and stupid gesture, how Doug Kenney and National Lampoon changed comedy forever, Josh Karp
- The last intellectuals : American culture in the age of academe, Russell Jacoby
- Essays on the closing of the American mind, edited by Robert L. Stone
- Shadow show : an autobiographical insinuation, Jamake Highwater
- Post-soul nation, the explosive, contradictory, triumphant, and tragic 1980s as experienced by African Americans (previously known as Blacks and before that Negroes), Nelson George
- Age of fracture, Daniel T. Rodgers
- Arguing the world, the New York intellectuals in their own words, [edited by] Joseph Dorman
- Jack London, a Gédéon/France 3 coproduction ; written by Michel LeBris ; directed by Michel Viotte ; producer, Anne-Françoise de Buzareingues
- Beyond the gray flannel suit, books from the 1950s that made American culture, David Castronovo
- Seeds of the sixties, Andrew Jamison, Ron Eyerman
- The awakening Twenties : a memoir-history of a literary period, Gorham Munson
- The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand
- Remembered rapture, the writer at work, Bell Hooks
- The truth of power, intellectual affairs in the Clinton White House, Benjamin R. Barber
- Warning, nonsense is destroying America, Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
- Drunk stoned brilliant dead, the story of the National Lampoon, History Films presents in association with Sky a 4th Row Films production in association with Passion Pictures and Diamond Docs ; a Douglas Tirola film ; written by Mark Monroe, Douglas Tirola ; produced by Susan Bedusa ; produced and directed by Douglas Tirola
- America-lite, how imperial academia dismantled our culture (and ushered in the Obamacrats), David Gelernter
- Susan Sontag, the making of an icon, Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock
- Mercy, mercy me, African-American culture and the American sixties, James C. Hall
- The long march, how the cultural revolution of the 1960s changed America, Roger Kimball
- The twilight of the intellectuals, culture and politics in the era of the Cold War, Hilton Kramer
- Divided minds, intellectuals and the civil rights movement, Carol Polsgrove
- The free world, art and thought in the Cold War, Louis Menand
- Heresy in the University, the Black Athena controversy and the responsibilities of American intellectuals, Jacques Berlinerblau
- Dumbing down, essays on the strip mining of American culture, edited by Katharine Washburn and John F. Thornton ; introduction by John Simon
- Aaron Copland's America, a cultural perspective, Gail Levin and Judith Tick
- Randall Jarrell and his age, Stephen Burt
- Visionaries, people & ideas to change your life, Jay Walljasper, Jon Spayde, and the editors of Utne reader
- American studies, Louis Menand
- On native grounds, an interpretation of modern American prose literature, by Alfred Kazin
- Susan Sontag, mind as passion, Liam Kennedy
- The world turned inside out, American thought and culture at the end of the 20th century, James Livingston
- The Notorious Ph.D.'s guide to the Super Fly '70s, Todd Boyd
- Rebellion against Victorianism : the impetus for cultural change in 1920s America, Stanley Coben
- Not without love, memoirs, Constance Webb
- The nineties, Chuck Klosterman
- The noir forties, the American people from victory to Cold War, Richard Lingeman
- The world through a monocle, the New Yorker at midcentury, Mary F. Corey
- Tennessee Williams, a film by Merrill Brockway ; produced by Catherine Tatge and Merrill Brockway ; written by Brooks Haxton ; directed by Merrill Brockway ; a co-production of International Cultural Programming and Thirteen/WNET in New York
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