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Thomas, John L.

Greenwood Press

A Country in the Mind

In this beautifully written account, John Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early environmental movement--Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto.. The authors of enormously popular works--Stegner most well known for his novels The Big Rock Candy Mountain and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and DeVoto for his classic history of western exploration, The Course of Empire--they also played important roles in the efforts to stop government and private interests from carving up the vanishing West. Part of the fractious group of public intellectuals at Harvard that included Edmund Wilson, Mary McCarthy, and Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., they saw no contradiction between their literary and political selves and entered the public debate with conviction and passion. Drawing on their writings, personal correspondence, and dozens of articles from the pages of Harper's, where DeVoto was a columnist for years, this illuminating account demonstrates how their concerns for the western environment continue to resonate today.

A Country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

The Great Republic: A History of the American People, Volume Two

History

WOOD, GORDON S.

Bailyn, Bernard

Dallek, Robert

Davis, David B.

DONALD, David Herbert

Americas

D.C. Heath & Co.

Through vivid and searching portraits of these three redoubtable journalists, prize-winning historian John L. Thomas traces for the first time the evolving ideologies of the most significant reformers of their age.Henry George’s Progress and Poverty, Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, and Henry Lloyd’s Wealth against Commonwealth each in its turn became an international bestseller, championing a course of national policy and social reform that owed allegiance neither to the large-scale capitalist model then emerging, nor to the bureaucratic socialism espoused on the left. Also common to the vast writings of all three were a deep distrust of partisan machine politics and a mounting sense of social crisis which neither spoilsmanship nor materialism seemed able to address.Seeking instead diversity and cooperation within society, small economic units, and simplicity in government, the authors of these works were moved to defend strikes during the heyday of industrial capitalism. They spoke out for international peace when imperialism was rampant. They called for the preservation of community values in the face of urban sprawl. And they urged the goals of brotherhood and interdependence in an age when survival of the fittest was seen as holy writ.They failed magnificently as apostles of a radical culture based on the ideal of a community, yet their intellectual legacy was not lost: their heirs include the broad movement that took the name Progressive, the New Deal, and the hopeful crusades of the 1960s. This magnificent book is their memorial and their history.

Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Adversary Tradition

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

John C. Calhoun a Profile

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Abraham Lincoln and the American Political Tradition

Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Beginning your marriage

Self-Help

Relationships

Buckley Publications

Beginning Your Marriage

The Spanish-language companion to the popular English-language, Beginning Your Marriage. Individual chapters consider love, commitment, communication, the sacrament of marriage, finances, sexuality, family and the raising of children.

El Camino Hacia el Amor (Spanish Edition)

John L. Thomas

ACTA Publications

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