Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism: Social Theory and Political Reconciliation in the 1940's

by Howard Brick

What causes a generation of intellectuals to switch its political allegiances--in particular, to move from the opposition to the mainstream? In U.S. history, it is the experience of the "Old Left" intellectuals, who swung from avowal of socialism or Communism in the 1930s to apology for American liberalism in the 1950s, that raises this question pointedly. In this highly original and broadsweeping study, Howard Brick focuses on the career of Daniel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299105504
• ISBN13: 9780299105501
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"