Age of Contradiction
American Thought and Culture in the 1960s
Published on 15. January 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-8014-8700-2 (ISBN)
Description
In Age of Contradiction, Howard Brick provides a rich context for understanding historical events, cultural tensions, political figures, artistic works, and trends of intellectual life. His lucid and comprehensive book combines the best methods of historical analysis and assessment with fascinating subject matter to create a three-dimensional...
Reviews / Votes
Howard Brick has performed an important service and produced a remarkable book.... What Brick has done is to remind us of just how important ideas were in the 1960s and, equally important, to illustrate how these various threads of 1960s life-the political, the social, and the intellectual-all wound in and out of one another.... As a result, we cannot look back on the decade the same way ever again.- Alexander Bloom (The Journal of American History)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8014-8700-2 (9780801487002)
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Person
Howard Brick is Professor of History and Louis Evans Chair in U.S. History at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s, also from Cornell, and Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism: Social Theory and Political Reconciliation in the 1940s.