Background
Ratner, Lorman Alfred was born on July 23, 1932 in New York City. Son of Mortimer Ratner and Lillian Becker.
( Andrew Jackson and those Tennesseans who, along with hi...)
Andrew Jackson and those Tennesseans who, along with him, were a major force in Tennessee and American political life can best be understood by examining the political culture they all shared. The ten men studied here were the children or grandchildren of immigrants from either the Scottish lowlands or the north of Ireland. All experienced the rise from the yeoman/artisan class to that of landed gentry, and all displayed in their adult lives the influence of that move from one socioeconomic class to another. This view of Jackson and his closest friends suggests a view of these men's motives; their values, attitudes, and beliefs were somewhat different than historians have pictured for us. These Jacksonians sought to preserve the world of their fathers while changing their place in the world. They looked back but moved ahead; they were self-interested but tempered always by a selfless ideal.
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( For many decades after the American Revolution, the ima...)
For many decades after the American Revolution, the image of the Republic shaped people's thinking and influenced events. Yet the simple republic and a growing, increasingly complex, capitalist America represented a clear paradox in American thinking. James Kirke Paulding was at one pole of that paradox. The first American writer to devote his career to describing America and Americans, to social commentary and social criticism, Paulding came to his subject as a crusader, his cause being the defense of the republic as a way of life, an economic and social system, and an ethical code. Although this book is Paulding's story, it is even more an attempt to describe America as Paulding saw it. Chapter 1 focuses on Paulding's part in urging the ongoing reasons for liberation from England and the protection of a unique American society. In Chapter 2, the discussion shifts to Paulding's view of the simple republic, and Chapter 3 considers the role of the West in preserving the simple republic. Although Paulding considered the West to be America's future, the South became for him its present. Chapter 4 considers his focus on the South in his struggle to save the heritage of the Revolution. Yet society was changing, and Chapter 5 focuses on Paulding's role in politics and his relationship with politicians in his last efforts to have both a noble past and a rapidly changing present. As the Civil War approached, the country, in Paulding's eyes, fell into the hands of fanatics who would sacrifice its heritage for the sake of a cause. His efforts to resist that fanaticism are the subject of the final chapter.
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Ratner, Lorman Alfred was born on July 23, 1932 in New York City. Son of Mortimer Ratner and Lillian Becker.
AB, Harvard College, 1954. Master of Arts, Cornell University, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1961.
Assistant professor Ithaca (New York ) College, 1959-1961. From assistant professor to associate professor to professor Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, 1961-1970, department chair, 1970-1972, dean of planning and social science, 1972-1977. Vice chancellor University Wisconsin, Kenosha, 1977-1983.
Chancellor University Wisconsin Centers, Madison, 1983-1986. Dean of arts and science, professor University Tennessee, Knoxville, 1986-1996, professor history, 1996-1999, professor emeritus, 1999. Adjunct professor University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from 1999.
( Andrew Jackson and those Tennesseans who, along with hi...)
( For many decades after the American Revolution, the ima...)
Member, president Board of Education, New York, 1971-1976.
Married Nina V. Nutt, June 20, 1953 (deceased February 1989). Children: Wendy Ratner MacMullen, Todd, Joseph, Matthew. Married Paula T. Kaufman, September 17, 1989.