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[1st ed.]. |
| Description |
xvi, 364 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Turmoil in the sixties: Radical criticism and the American intellectuals -- Berkeley and "Leftism" -- New styles in "Leftism" -- Berkeley and beyond -- Vietnam Protest Movement -- Universities and intellectuals -- 2. On the other side: Leon Trotsky: the costs of history -- Pasternak -- Boris Pasternak: of freedom and contemplation -- Isaac Deutscher: freedom and the ash can of history -- 3. Portraits and polemics: On the death of John F. Kennedy -- Johnson and the myth of consensus -- Stevenson -- Adlai Stevenson: the last, sad years -- Goldwater Movement -- Cold War -- Communism now -- On the career and example of C. Wright Mills -- Bourbon on the rocks (James Burnham) -- European as revolutionary (Victor Serge) -- Madness, vision, stupidity (Whittaker Chambers) -- 4. Premises and reconsiderations: Images of socialism -- Authoritarians of the Left -- This age of conformity -- 5. How it started: A memoir of the thirties. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
| Subject |
Right and left (Political science)
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Right and left (Political science) |
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Intellectuals -- United States.
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Intellectuals. |
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Intellectuals -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union. |
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