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The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War is a nonfiction history book by Perry Miller.It won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for History. [1] [2] [3] Miller writing about "Evangelical Basis" (Book one), "The Legal Mentality" (Book two), "Science" (Book three). [4]
Hofstadter described anti-intellectualism as "resentment of the life of the mind, and those who are considered to represent it; and a disposition to constantly minimize the value of that life." [ 6 ] He further described the term as a view that "intellectuals...are pretentious, conceited... and snobbish; and very likely immoral, dangerous, and ...
Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller (February 25, 1905 – December 9, 1963) was an American intellectual historian and a co-founder of the field of American Studies. [1] Miller specialized in the history of early America and took an active role in a revisionist view of the colonial Puritan theocracy that was cultivated at Harvard University beginning in the 1920s.
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's title.
Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind is a 1896 biography of Henry David Thoreau by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ... The American Historical Review. 92 (5): ...
The cycle of failed prophecy is a familiar one for American conservatism.” — Jonathan Chait, New York Opposition to same-sex marriage has become increasingly difficult to rationalize
Jeremy Ney, American Inequality. COVID-19 is the most obvious and convenient culprit, both for the absolute decline in life expectancy and the divergence between the experiences of the U.S. and ...
The American Library Association celebrated its centennial in 1976. In commemoration the association published Libraries and the Life of the Mind in America. [32] [33]The American Library Association Archives, established at the time of the centennial, created an online exhibit which includes a history of the centennial.