Professors, politics, and pop /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wiener, Jon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 1991.
Series:Haymarket series
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Deconstructing de Man
  • Debating de Man
  • The responsibilities of friendship : Jacques Derrida on Paul de Man's collaboration
  • The Sears case : women's history on trial
  • The Sears case : what happened?
  • Dealing with deadwood : the Arizona approach
  • Capitalist shock therapy : the Sachs plan in Poland
  • The odyssey of Daniel Boorstin
  • Footnotes to history : the David Abraham case
  • Bringing Nazi sympathizers to the US : Talcott Parsons's role
  • Poles, Jews, and historians : the case of Norman Davies
  • Campus capitalism : Harvard chases biotech bucks
  • The CIA goes back to college
  • Dollars for neocon scholars : the Olin money tree
  • Accuracy in academia : Reed Irvine rides the paper tiger
  • History wars : why the right is losing in academe
  • School for spooks : Yale and the CIA
  • Law profs fight the power
  • Free speech for campus bigots?
  • Racial hatred on campus
  • Looking back, moving ahead : students today and the sixties
  • Freshman activists
  • Divestment report card : students, stocks and shanties
  • Campus voices, right and left
  • Radical historians and the crisis in American history, 1959-1980
  • Crossing the lines : Taylor Branch gives the movement its due
  • The liberal imagination and the antiwar movement
  • The New Left as history
  • Chicago '68 revisited
  • Black social experience and radical politics in Alabama
  • When Old Blue Eyes was Red
  • Inside the Nixon liebrary
  • John Lennon versus the FBI
  • Beatles buy-out : how Nike bought the Beatles' "Revolution"
  • Crushing a dead Beatle : the case of Albert Goldman
  • Rockin' with Ron : Springsteen and Reagan
  • Reggae and revolution
  • A soft rain : Dylan
  • Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Nixon : Watergate in theory
  • Tom Hayden's new workout
  • The other Nancy Davis : not necessarily the First Lady
  • Footnote, or perish.