Are we good citizens? : affairs political, literary, and academic
A critical and democratic perspective on American politics, letters, and higher education. Drawing from public and personal experiences, the author invites readers to think about their own level of social consciousness. Topics include: capitalism and class inequality; and teaching and parenting.
xviii, 162 pages ; 24 cm
9780807740200, 9780807740194, 0807740209, 0807740195
45207874
Affairs Political. God, sex, and the Blues
The emergence of class politics?
Dear Mr. President: a plea for a progressive legacy
Conservative chutzpah, radical-democratic hopes
The people's team: the Green Bay Packers
or The Super Bowl as political drama / with Isaac Kramnick
FDR: a great but flawed president
or Visiting the new memorial
Labor and the intellectuals: a new cultural front?
Up-ending the end of history, redeeming America's prophetic memory
Getting back our bite
1968-1998. 1848 and all that
or A vision of poetry in motion
The third way is the wrong way
Signs of life: American history, memory, and democracy
Affairs Literary. In bookstores, bigger can be better
Reading the right
or It's a dirty job, but ..
Writing for kids
or In praise of juvenile efforts
Are Americans more inquisitive?
Send in the historians
or The Yanks are coming over there
Radical ambivalence
Remembering and honoring our fathers
or Democratic generations
Fanning the spark of hope in the past: the British Marxist historians. Affairs Academic. Are we good citizens?
A nation of teachers
Starting all over again
Back in the saddle, and loving it: post-sabbatical thoughts
Search for sixties soul
A Yank in London
or love and class struggles
History and the Great Balloon debate
The nest starts to empty
or You can see her from Monticello
Collegial pleasures
Felicity at the barricades
Pilgrims with tales to tell
Turning 50 on the eve of 2000
The dialectic of mentoring