First published in 1976, George H. Nash's celebrated history of the postwar conservative
intellectual movement has become the unquestioned standard in the field. This new edition …

This is a book about intellectuals. More specifically, it is a book about the way certain
American writers in the 1940s and 1950s interpreted and tried to cope with the major events …

The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall
Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of …

The ascendancy of conservatism in the last twenty years is an unprecedented episode in
American intellectual and political history. In Watch on the Right, J. David Hoeveler Jr. gives …

For a generation, Alan M. Wald's The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative
account of an often misunderstood chapter in the history of a celebrated tradition among …

The Paradox of Progressive Thought was first published in 1958. Minnesota Archive
Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible …

Around the turn of the century, the American liberal tradition made a major shift away from
politics. The new radicals were more interested in the reform of education, culture, and …

The data reported upon in The American Intellectual Elite2 (hence forth AIE) were collected
in 1970 and represented intellectuals who in the late 1960's wrote in leading intellectual …

In 1954 a brash and brilliant twenty-eight-year-old began planning a bold literary venture. As
the future editor and initial publisher of National Review, William F. Buckley, Jr., worked …

What constitutes American thought is obviously too elusive to be encompassed by any one
writer or group of writers. The best that any attempt at intellectual history can achieve is to …