Hope & scorn : eggheads, experts, and elites in American politics /

Michael Brown investigates the ever-fluctuating relationship between American intellectuals and national politics from the Eisenhower era to Obama's, a story of both persistence and evolution. In Brown's words, "intellectuals have been both whipping boys and wonder workers in American...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Michael J. (Michael James) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Manning the Barricades of Civilization
  • A Candidate of Intelligence
  • The Moralist and the Mandarin
  • Critic, Counselor, Critic
  • The Intellectual against Intellectuals
  • Critical Organic Catalyst, Prophetic Pragmatist, and Public Intellectual.