The American Intellectual Tradition: A SourcebookVolume II: 1865 to the Present

by David A. Hollinger (Editor), Charles Capper (Editor)

Revised and expanded, the second edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology of many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history offers new selections from a diversity of authors; an extensive chronology connecting several hundred important books and
essays with events in American and European intellectual, cultural, and political history; and updated bibliographies and headnotes. The anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranged chronologically from the establishment of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present. Designed for easy use by a wide range of readers, it is an invaluable reader for anyone interested in intellectual history, American history, American studies, or American literature.
Volume I (to 1865) now offers new selections by Sarah M. Grimké, Horace Bushnell, and Louisa S. McCord, and Volume II (1865-present) now offers new selections by Charles Hodge, Henry Adams, George Santayana, W.E.B. Du Bois, Randolph Bourne, H.L. Mencken, John Crowe Ransom, Meridel Le Sueur,
Reinhold Niebuhr, Ralph Ellison, Whittaker Chambers, Betty Friedan, Adrienne Rich, Evelyn Fox Keller, Richard Rorty, and Michael Walzer.

Genres: History, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Anthologies, Religion, Literature, American History

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Preston Hotchkis Professor of History (Emeritus)
University of California at Berkeley

One of the pre-eminent intellectual historians in and of the United States.

Past President of the Organization of American Historians (2010-2011); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; former Guggenheim Fellow, Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and Harmsworth Professor of the University of Oxford.

Reviews

[Dan Gorman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anthology of diverse sources from American literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and higher education. Major topics include foundationalist versus antifoundationalist concepts of the world, the nature of a literary canon, governance in the United States, and the applications of economics and social science to politics.

[Karl · Rating 1 out of 5]

Another 100%. Pointless rambling nonsense book.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is simple: well-edited excerpts from the most important thinkers of the post-1865 era in American thought. After World War II, its selections become less defensible, but for the most fecund period of American intellectual history, the century from 1865 to 1965, it is pretty hard to beat it for a small volume with the principal texts, well-edited.

[Max Havlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a collection of essays and parts of readings that explore the several different intellectual movements in the 20th century. Definitely not a light read but a great reference book with writers ranging in political ideas from William James to Ayn Rand.

[Brittany Werges · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute must read for anyone who wants to understand the history of America. Perfectly edited, a treasure for historians.