Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1990 - 365 pages
The "Young American" critics_Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford_are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics. In <

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The Malady of the Ideal
10
The Soul and Society
49
The Politics of Cultural Renewal
76
Spiritual Pioneers
122
The War and the Intellectuals
157
Culture against the State
187
In Search of a Usable Self
229
Organic Community
266
Epilogue
296
Notes
305
Bibliography
339
Index
355
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Casey Nelson Blake is professor of history and American studies at Columbia University. His critical essays have appeared in the American Scholar, Dissent, the Nation, and other journals of opinion.

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