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Lynn, Kenneth Schuyler was born on June 17, 1923 in Cleveland. Son of Ernest Lee and Edna (Marcey) Lynn.
( In this controversial, wide-ranging, and fearlessly can...)
In this controversial, wide-ranging, and fearlessly candid book, Kenneth S. Lynn argues that too many of our current commentators on the American past are out of touch with historical reality. His targets range from the currently fashionable but fantastic idea that the Declaration of Independence derives from a communitarian rather than individualistic philosophy to misinterpretations of the lives of Emerson, Walter Lippmann, Hemingway, and Max Perkins. In each case Lynn reveals the tendency of literary and intellectual historians to impose precooked formulas upon the evidence they profess to study.
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( When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we...)
When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression. But the 1920s were much more. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. The Modern Temper brings these many developments into sharp focus.
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( When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we...)
When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression. But the 1920s were much more. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. The Modern Temper brings these many developments into sharp focus.
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( When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we...)
When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression. But the 1920s were much more. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. The Modern Temper brings these many developments into sharp focus.
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(Incisive and original, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote with ...)
Incisive and original, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote with an eloquence that burst the conventions of his discipline and won a readership none of his fellow economists could match. This Library of America volume, the first devoted to economics, gathers four of his key early works, the books that established him as one of the leading public intellectuals of the last century. In American Capitalism, Galbraith exposes with great panache the myth of American free-market competition. The idea that an impersonal market sets prices and wages, and maintains balance between supply and demand, remained so vital in American economic thought, Galbraith argued, because oligopolistic American businessmen never acknowledged their collective power. Also overlooked was the way that groups such as unions and regulatory agencies react to large oligopolies by exerting countervailing power—a concept that was the book’s lasting contribution. The Great Crash, 1929 offers a gripping account of the most legendary (and thus misunderstood) financial collapse in American history, as well as an inquiry into why it led to sustained depression. Galbraith posits five reasons: unusually high income inequality; a bad, overleveraged corporate structure; an unsound banking system; unbalanced foreign trade; and, finally, “the poor state of economic intelligence.” His account is a trenchant analysis of the 1929 crisis and a cautionary tale of ignorance and hubris among stock-market players; not surprisingly, the book was again a bestseller in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse. In The Affluent Society, the book that introduced the phrase “the conventional wisdom” into the American lexicon, Galbraith takes on a shibboleth of free-market conservatives and Keynesian liberals alike: the paramount importance of production. For Galbraith, the American mania for production continued even in an era of unprecedented affluence, when the basic needs of all but an impoverished minority had easily been met. Thus the creation of new and spurious needs through advertising—leading to skyrocketing consumer debt, and eventually a private sector that is glutted at the expense of a starved public sector. The New Industrial State stands as the most developed exposition of Galbraith’s major themes. Examining the giant postwar corporations, Galbraith argued that the “technostructure” necessary for such vast organizations—comprising specialists in operations, marketing, and R&D—is primarily concerned with reducing risk, not with maximizing profits; it perpetuates stability through “the planning system.” The book concludes with a prescient analysis of the “educational and scientific estate,” which prefigures the “information economy” that has emerged since the book was published.
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Lynn, Kenneth Schuyler was born on June 17, 1923 in Cleveland. Son of Ernest Lee and Edna (Marcey) Lynn.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1947; A.M., Harvard, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1954.
Member faculty, Harvard, 1954-1968; Professor of English, Harvard, 1963-1968; chairman, Harvard (American civilization program), 1960-1961, 64-68; professor American studies, Federal City College, 1968-1969; professor of history, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1969-1986; Arthur O. Lovejoy professor of history, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1986-1989. Visiting professor U. Madrid, Spain, 1963-1964. Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1976-1977.
( When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we...)
( When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we...)
( When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we...)
(Incisive and original, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote with ...)
(Air-Line To Seattle, The: Studies In Literary And Histori...)
( In this controversial, wide-ranging, and fearlessly can...)
("tearful verses")
Author: Dream of Success, 1955, Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor, 1959, William Dean Howells. An American Life, 1971, Visions of America, 1973, A Divided People, 1977, The Air-Line to Seattle, 1983, Hemingway, 1987.
Editor: The Comic Tradition in America, 1958, The American Society, 1963, World In a Glass, 1966. General editor: Houghton Mifflin Riverside Literature Series, since 1962. Associate editor: Daedalus, 1962-1968, New England Quar, 1963-1983.
Served with United States Army Air Force, 1943-1946. Member Massachusetts History Society.
Married Valerie Ann Roemer, September 23, 1948. Children: Andrew Schuyler, Elisabeth, Sophia.