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Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty
Category: Politics | Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization
The author argues that the Left wing in America sees the sins of America's past poisoning hope for the future, and challenges the "lost" generation of the Left to understand the role it might play in the tradition of democratic intellectual labour that started with writers like Walt Whitman and John Dew ...Show more
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations by Greil Marcus
Category: Music | Series: William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Ci
Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including "Mystery Train "and "The Shape of Things to Come, " traverse soundscapes of folk and blues, rock and punk, attuning readers to the surprising, often hidden affinities between t ...Show more
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