Achieving our country : leftist thought in twentieth-century America
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Achieving our country : leftist thought in twentieth-century America

By Rorty, Richard, author.
Harvard University. Press.

Published 1999 by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

ISBN 9780674003125

Bib Id 888335

Edition First Harvard University Press paperback edition.

Description 159 pages ; 21 cm.

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Leader
aam a22 i 4500
LCCN
97-043210
ISBN
9780674003125 paperback $19.95
0674003128
Call #
320.513 R
Title
Achieving our country : leftist thought in twentieth-century America
Varying Form of Title
Leftist thought in 20th-century America
Edition
First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Publication Information
1999 by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Description
159 pages ; 21 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
American National Pride : Whitman and Dewey -- The eclipse of the reformist left -- A cultural left -- Appendixes: Movements and campaigns ; The inspirational value of great works of literature.
Summary
One of America's foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role it might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers such as Walt Whitman and John Dewey.

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