United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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- The twilight of the intellectuals, culture and politics in the era of the Cold War, Hilton Kramer
- Divided minds, intellectuals and the civil rights movement, Carol Polsgrove
- A Futile and stupid gesture, how Doug Kenney and National Lampoon changed comedy forever, Josh Karp
- The end of utopia, politics and culture in an age of apathy, Russell Jacoby
- The free world, art and thought in the Cold War, Louis Menand
- The world turned inside out, American thought and culture at the end of the 20th century, James Livingston
- After the vote was won, the later achievements of fifteen suffragists, Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene
- A futile and stupid gesture, how Doug Kenney and National lampoon changed comedy forever, Josh Karp
- The closing of the American mind, how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students, Allan Bloom
- American smoke, journeys to the end of the light : a fiction of memory, Iain Sinclair
- Ayn Rand Cult
- Writing was everything, Alfred Kazin
- The closing of the American mind, Allan Bloom ; foreword by Saul Bellow
- Dancing in the dark, a cultural history of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein
- The notorious Ph.D.'s guide to the super fly '70s, a connoisseur's journey through the fabulous flix, hip sounds, and cool vibes that defined a decade, Todd Boyd
- W.E.B. Du Bois and American political thought, fabianism and the color line, Adolph L. Reed, Jr
- The closing of the American mind, [how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students], Allan Bloom ; foreword by Saul Bellow ; afterword by Andrew Ferguson
- The little girl who fought the Great Depression, Shirley Temple and 1930s America, John F. Kasson
- The decline of intelligence in America, a strategy for national renewal, Seymour W. Itzkoff
- Influencing Hemingway, people and places that shaped his life and work, Nancy W. Sindelar
- The dark ages, life in the United States, 1945-1960, by Marty Jezer
- The know-it-all, one man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world, A.J. Jacobs
- Arguing the world, produced, directed and written by Joseph Dorman ; a project of Riverside Film Productions in association with Thirteen/WNET , New York
- Drunk stoned brilliant dead, the story of the National Lampoon, Magnolia Pictures, History Films and Sky Atlantic present ; a 4th Row Films production in association with Passion Pictures and Diamond Docs ; written by Mark Monroe, Douglas Tirola ; produced by Susan Bedusa ; produced and directed by Douglas Tirola
- For the Republic, political essays, George Scialabba
- Berkeley in the sixties, Kitchell Films in association with P.O.V. Theatrical Films ; produced & directed by Mark Kitchell ; written by Stephen Most, Mark Kitchell, Susan Griffin
- Sontag & Kael, opposites attract me, Craig Seligman
- Spontaneous mind, selected interviews, 1958-1996, Allen Ginsberg ; with a preface by Václav Havel and an introduction by Edmund White ; edited by David Carter
- The metaphysical club, Louis Menand
- Impostors in the temple, Martin Anderson
- Dancing in the dark, a cultural history of the Great Depression, Morris Dickstein
- The world turned inside out, American thought and culture at the end of the 20th century, James Livingston
- The know-it-all, one man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world, A.J. Jacobs
- Henry Steele Commager, midcentury liberalism and the history of the present, Neil Jumonville
- Shadow show, an autobiographical insinuation, Jamake Highwater
- Elsie Clews Parsons, inventing modern life, Desley Deacon
- Soldiers of reason, the RAND Corporation and the rise of the American empire, Alex Abella
- The age of doubt, American thought and culture in the 1940s, William Graebner
- Seeds of the sixties, Andrew Jamison and Ron Eyerman
- Influencing Hemingway, people and places that shaped his life and work, Nancy W. Sindelar
- The long march, how the cultural revolution of the 1960s changed America, Roger Kimball
- Voices of our time
- A futile and stupid gesture, how Doug Kenney and National lampoon changed comedy forever, Josh Karp
- Giants and dwarfs, essays, 1960-1990, Allan Bloom
- The know-it-all, one man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world, A.J. Jacobs
- A great idea at the time, the rise, fall, and curious afterlife of the great books, Alex Beam
- Keeping literary company, working with writers since the sixties, Jerry Klinkowitz
- Rethinking Cold War culture, edited by Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert
- Know your enemy, the rise and fall of America's Soviet experts, David C. Engerman
- Reading myself and others, Philip Roth
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