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"This is a wonderfully rich collection of primary source readings, intelligently selected and usefully organized. This updated edition is indispensable for undergraduate courses in American intellectual or cultural history, a stimulating supplement to any undergraduate course about the United States, and required reading for graduate students."--Dorothy Ross, Johns Hopkins University
"This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching in American thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike. The American Intellectual Tradition provides a comprehensive survey ranging from the Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth edition includes updated versions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies, essays as valuable for specialists trying to keep track of new work in cultural history as for students seeking guidance as they embark on the historical study of ide --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Revised and updated, the sixth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion, social theory, political thought, economics, psychology, and cultural and literary criticism. Organized chronologically into thematic sections, the two volumes trace the evolution of American intellectual writing and thinking from its origins in Puritan beliefs to the most recent essays on diversity and postmodernity. Pedagogical features include introductions and headnotes to the selections, updated bibliographic material throughout, and detailed chronologies at the end of each book. Addressing such highly contested subjects as race, class, gender, aesthetics, political religion, and the role of the United States in the world, The American Intellectual Tradition, Sixth Edition, is invaluable for undergraduate courses in intellectual history. It is also an excellent supplement for graduate seminars and classes in American history, American studies, and American literature. Volumes I and II now offer new selections from Charles Chauncy, Lester Frank Ward, Joseph Wood Krutch, David Lilienthal, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Peter Drucker, Ayn Rand, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Harold John Ockenaga, C. Wright Mills, Harold Cruse, John Rawls, Catherine Mackinnon, Sam Harris, and Stewart Brand. The sixth edition also offers updated and expanded commentary and citations in the introductions and headnotes.
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An Excellent Compendium of American Thought
31 Dec 2002
Format:Paperback
Volume II of Hollinger and Capper's work is as excellent as the first.
Volume II contains contributions from American writers such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan Sontag, Malcolm X, Rienhold Niebuhr, Noam Chomsky, John Crowe Ransom, Betty Friedan, John Dewey, W.E.B. DuBois, H.L. Mencken, Jane Addams, Woodrow Wilson, Samuel Huntington, etc.
Volume II traces the developments of race relations in America, the advancement of minorities and women in America, American foreign relations, insight into the state of the South after the Civil War, the effect of transportation revolutions on interstate travel as well as traces the development of Pragmatism, America's contribution to the world of Philosophy from Charles Sanders Peirce to William James to Thomas Kuhn to Richard Rorty.
Simply put, the topical treatment of this work is first rate and the collection of these various works is a creditable contribution to the field of American Intellectual History.
Good collection, but needs some context
16 Jan 2012
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This book is a solid collection of primary sources on American intellectual history. As such, it should come as no surprise that reading it is by no means easy, and that's just fine. But what's not fine is that the editors don't give you much help. Strictly speaking, it's not necessarily their job to provide context for the sources; all the same, I felt that they could have made more of an effort to do so given the difficulty of the sources. I realize that the point of reading primary sources is to come to your own conclusions, but that's awfully difficult to do if you know little or nothing about the documents' contexts. Hollinger and Capper provide a paragraph or so of context before each reading, but for me, someone whose knowledge of American history isn't particularly deep, this paragraph wasn't enough. This all means that if you're studying American intellectual history, you'll probably need something more than this book, such as more general (text)books and/or a lecture course that can help you with context. If you happen to be stuck in a classroom setting where you have to try to "make sense" of this brick on your own or through discussions with equally novice peers, god help you.
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Good Stuff
20 Sep 2011
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Solid academic overview of American Thought that is actually written thoughtfully enough to warrant keeping it beyond the classroom requirement.
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