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Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty and individuality, the tenets of religion, and the doctrines of republicanism and democracy. Crucial to this development were the thinkers who nurtured it, from Thomas Jefferson to Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. E. B. DuBois to Jane Addams, and Betty Friedan to Richard Rorty. The Ideas That Made America A Brief History traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of their time and place, whether the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the culture wars of today.Â
Spanning a variety of disciplines, from religion, philosophy, and political thought, to cultural criticism, social theory, and the arts, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen shows how ideas have been major forces in American history, driving movements such as transcendentalism, Social Darwinism, conservatism, and postmodernism. In engaging and accessible prose, this introduction to American thought considers how notions about freedom and belonging, the market and morality - and even truth - have commanded generations of Americans and been the cause of fierce debate.
Read The Ideas That Made America A Brief History Audible Audio Edition Jennifer RatnerRosenhagen Karen White Tantor Audio Books
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- Great book! Fast delivery. Book in perfect condition. thanks, Norm
- Didn't dislike anything. Used for own education.
- Professor Ratner-Rosenhagen has provided an excellent resource for Americans who have an interest in our current state of intellectual affairs and how we have arrived. In this brief book she provides eight chapters that are logical and clear in the flow from one to the other. However her summary of American intellectual thought is never simply a straight and logical line from here to there nor a captive to the "great tradition" of history. She provides an encyclopedic review of American thinkers - indigenous, African-American, Latino, immigrant, white, male, female, straight and gay. Any interested reader will find him or herself tempted to look up one of the myriad of names mentioned, do research and be enriched.
Her discussion of the year "1962 or Thereabouts" is brilliant in its presentation of the flourishing of thought from many perspectives and traditions (although, as a poet, I wish she would have mentioned that Robert Bly published "Silence in the Snow Fields" in that year!).
Her prose is clear, disciplined but never formal or academic. The reading and re-reading of "The Ideas..." will enrich the new student and the older enquirer interested in re acquaintance and, even better, new acquaintance with the flow of American intellectual history - The author manages to achieve both breadth and depth, no easy task. This brief volume begins at the beginning and takes us up to the present, stretching wide to cover an immense amount of figures and issues (the expected and the surprising). Although I have labored in the field for many years, Ratner-Rosenhagen was able to surprise me with figures that I have missed. And she makes them, and their ideas, not only come to life but attain importance. While she juggles many topics and figures, she manages to link them in ways that are sometimes conventional but often enough
surprising. And she does all of this with vigor and style. I wish I were still teaching U.S. Intellectual History - this would definitely be the book I would assign.
