Format:
xxvii, 568 pages
,
24 cm
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
0062340409
,
9780062340399
Content:
Essays collected from ten decades of the New Republic explore pivotal issues of modern America
Note:
At head of title: New Republic
,
Introduction:The insurrectionists
,
1910s.The duty of harsh criticism
,
In a schoolroom
,
Life is cheap
,
The future of pacifism
,
1920s.Meditation in E minor
,
The eclipse of progressivism
,
Soviet Russia
,
In Dedham Jail: a visit to Sacco and Vanzetti
,
The birth-control raid
,
1930s.Progress and poverty
,
Out of the Red with Roosevelt
,
The future of democracy
,
1940s.The corruption of liberalism
,
Thoughts on peace in an air raid
,
Young man with a horn again
,
The art of translation
,
"In every voice, in every ban"
,
Politics and the English language
,
1950s.Sigmund Freud
,
Indo-China
,
Our stake in the state of Israel
,
Positive thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue
,
Arthur Miller's conscience
,
1960s.Candidate on the eve: liberalism without tears
,
A jolly good Fellini
,
The march on Washington
,
The war on poverty
,
Movie brutalists
,
1970s.Power and powerlessness: decline of democratic government
,
Random murder: the new terrorists
,
The liberal's dilemma
,
Protégé power
,
1980s.The great Carter mystery
,
Liberals and deficits
,
Tory days
,
Mr. Democrat
,
Here comes the groom: a (conservative) case for gay marriage
,
1990s.The value of the canon
,
Highway to hell
,
The child monarch
,
After memory
,
Beyond words
,
The griz
,
Les très riches heures de Martha Stewart
,
He is finished
,
2000s.Disgrace
,
Saint Gerhard of the sorrows of painting
,
Mad about you: the case for Bush hatred
,
The limited circle is pure
,
A fighting faith
,
American Adam
,
The idea of ideas
,
Afterword:Mind without silos: the next hundred years
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Liberalismus
;
Geschichte 1910-
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Foer, Franklin 1975-
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