The Distortion of America |
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Author:
| Handlin, Oscar |
ISBN: | 978-0-316-34316-9 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1981 |
Publisher: | Little Brown & Company
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $10.95 |
Book Description:
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Expanded edition of historian Handlin's 1961 critique of anti- Americanism as an ideological expression of Marxism-Leninism in academia. Handlin's smugness (e.g. "...innate reticence kept me quiet unless I knew about what I spoke.") and his fundamental project of abusing history to settle intellectual and political scores undermines whatever explanatory power his analysis might otherwise have had. Six additional chapters supplement those gathered in the earlier collection. Annotation...
More DescriptionExpanded edition of historian Handlin's 1961 critique of anti- Americanism as an ideological expression of Marxism-Leninism in academia. Handlin's smugness (e.g. "...innate reticence kept me quiet unless I knew about what I spoke.") and his fundamental project of abusing history to settle intellectual and political scores undermines whatever explanatory power his analysis might otherwise have had. Six additional chapters supplement those gathered in the earlier collection. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR