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Blum, John Morton was born on April 29, 1921 in New York City. Son of Morton Gustave and Edna (LeVino) Blum.
(Since its birth, American society has sought a balance be...)
Since its birth, American society has sought a balance between the rights of the individual and the needs of the community. These essays discuss the tensions between liberty and order that have marked American politics in the 20th century. John Blum addresses specific questions such as the historical relationship between race and poverty and explores particular episodes like the foreign "scare" after World War I. The essays are reminders of America at its best and worst and serve as lessons for a country still struggling to define social justice.
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(The author of such classic works as The Republican Roosev...)
The author of such classic works as The Republican Roosevelt, V Was for Victory, and Years of Discord, John Morton Blum is one of a small group of intellectuals who for more than a quarter of a century dominated the writing of American political history. Writing now of his own career, Blum provides a behind-the-scenes look at Ivy League education and political power from the 1940s to the 1980s. Blum insightfully recounts a long and distinguished journey that began at Phillips Academy, where he first realized he could make a career of teaching and writing history. He tells how young men were socialized to the values of the Northeastern establishment in those years before World War II, and how as a non-practicing Jew he learned to overcome bigotry both at Andover and at Harvard, which then had no Jewish professors. In 1957 Blum joined the faculty of Yale University's history department, widely regarded as the nation's best, where he became both influential and popular and where his students included one future U.S. president as well as others who aspired to the office. He reveals much about the inner workings of Ivy League education and tells of controversies over the Vietnam War and the Black Panthers, his role in Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign, and how he searched for common ground between reactionary faculty and radical students. More than a recounting of a singular life, Blum's story explains how political history was researched and written during the second half of the twentieth century, describing how the discipline evolved, gained ascendancy, and was challenged as historical fashions changed. It also offers revealing glimpses of such prominent academics as Kingman Brewster, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., C. Vann Woodward, and William Sloan Coffin. Over a distinguished career, Blum witnessed considerable change in elite educational institutions, where minorities and women were grossly underrepresented when he first entered academia. In a memoir brimming with insight and laced with humor, he looks back at the academy "not a refuge from reality but an alternative reality" as he reflects upon his intellectual journey and his contributions to the study and writing of twentieth-century American history.
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(A distinguished historian examines the nation’s involveme...)
A distinguished historian examines the nation’s involvement in a war that most americans thought necessary and righteous. He focuses on the home front: how our culture and politics affected the course of the war and how the war in turn affected us. Index.
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(An analysis of the political career of Woodrow Wilson and...)
An analysis of the political career of Woodrow Wilson and the moral and political issues of his era.
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(The corpse is grotesque, an obese woman dressed for gradu...)
The corpse is grotesque, an obese woman dressed for graduation, her face contorted by the poison she swallowed. The trail to her murder began months earlier with the search for a new president of the university. History professor Jerry Walsh and law professor Lilith Furman, pursuing that search, work in an environment charged by the inner secrets of the leading candidates-one of them involved in an illicit love affair, another the creature of perverse sexual desires, still another in love with a rival's wife. Will the two professors be able to break the secret computer code to reveal crucial clues to the crimes? Ambition, jealousy and greed; theft, blackmail and murder-you'll find them all in An Old Blue Corpse: A New Haven Mystery, along with a behind-the-scenes portrait of university politics.
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(For fifteen tense and troubled years between the election...)
For fifteen tense and troubled years between the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, the United States struggled to direct its domestic life and its role in a rapidly changing world. These fifteen years are as rich as any in American history, rich in incident - the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights struggle, the antiwar crusade, the opening of China, Watergate, Kennedy's assassination, Johnson's retirement, the fall of Nixon: rich in personality - Robert Kennedy, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Jr, Earl Warren, Bob Dylan, Henry Kissinger, George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey: and rich, finally in what it tells us of power, its attainment, and its use at home and abroad.
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( “A study of four controversial presidents that goes bey...)
“A study of four controversial presidents that goes beyond the nature of their administrations and penetrates to fundamental questions of presidential power. Balanced and knowledgeable.” —James MacGregor Burns Advocates of a strong versus a weak presidency have struggled throughout American history, but never so fiercely as in the twentieth century, which saw the rise of progressivism. This is the story of four progressive presidents, from the first Roosevelt, who himself brought plenty of backbone to the office, to Woodrow Wilson , who articulated the theory of a progressive presidency, to FDR, who brought it unique power, and, finally, to Lyndon Johnson, who provided perhaps its last great surge in our century. In a time of progressive malaise, it is important to know the history, to see the benefits as well as the liabilities, in the progressive presidential tradition. That is the aim and achievement of this book.
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Blum, John Morton was born on April 29, 1921 in New York City. Son of Morton Gustave and Edna (LeVino) Blum.
AB, Harvard University, 1943. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1950.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Harvard University, 1980. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, 1963. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Trinity College, 1970.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Colgate University, 1978.
Research associate, then assistant professor of history, associate professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1948-1957; professor of history, Yale University, 1957-1995; retired, Yale University, 1995; Pitt professor, Cambridge U., 1963-1964; Harmsworth professor, University of Oxford, 1976-1977.
(The author of such classic works as The Republican Roosev...)
( “A study of four controversial presidents that goes bey...)
(686 page paperback condensation of the Morgenthau Diaries...)
(Since its birth, American society has sought a balance be...)
(A distinguished historian examines the nation’s involveme...)
(The corpse is grotesque, an obese woman dressed for gradu...)
(Favorably portrays the personality and political policies...)
(An analysis of the political career of Woodrow Wilson and...)
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(United States History from 1789 - President Ford)
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Trustee Buckingham School, 1954-1956, Hotchkiss School, 1964-1970. Member Andover Alumni Council, 1957-1960. Served from ensign to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946.
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts History Society, Century Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Pamela Louise Zink, June 28, 1944. Children: Pamela, Ann, Thomas Tyler.