At the Center

Name: At the Center
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American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century

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American Thought and Culture

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At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of “American culture”? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct amid the flux and horrors of history? In what ways did a stable self emerge through the life cycle? Could scientific method rescue truth from error, illusion, and myth? Are there key elements to democracy, to the integrity of a society, to order in the world? Answers to such questions promised intellectual and moral stability in an age haunted by the memory of world war and the possibility of future devastation on an even greater scale. Yet other key figures rejected the search for a center, asserting that freedom lay in the dispersion of cultural energies and the plurality of American experiences. In probing the centering impulse of the era, At the Center offers a unique perspective on the United States at the pinnacle of its power.

Author Biography:

Casey Nelson Blake is Mendelson Family Professor of American Studies at Columbia University. Daniel H. Borus is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Rochester. Howard Brick is Louis Evans Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

Release date Australia

May 10th, 2021

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Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs

Pages

358

Series

American Thought and Culture

Dimensions

154x218x19

ISBN-13

9781538158432

Product ID

34775191

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