Background
Goldman, Eric Frederick was born on June 17, 1915 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Harry Eric and Bessie (Chapman) Goldman.
(Eric Goldman's long out of print and difficult to find bo...)
Eric Goldman's long out of print and difficult to find book The Crucial Decade is now considered a classic on the history of early postwar America: a fine book in a fine tradition, accurate and enjoyable.
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(Here, back in print in paperback, is one of the most bril...)
Here, back in print in paperback, is one of the most brilliant and dramatic historical narratives ever written about the American experience. Eric Goldman tells a story of the wise and the shortsighted, the bold and the timid, the generous and the grasping men and women who are the stuff of American reform. He begins in the years after the Civil War, when our tradition of dissent was fueled by industrialization and urbanization. He deals not with theories, alien or native, but with the lives of the dissenters, Populist and Progressive, with their political organizations and schemes, their popular support, the newspapers and newspapermen who controlled them or followed them, the several dramatic flood tides of reform, and the subsequent ebbing. Mr. Goldman has the gift of personal portraiture; by returning directly to men and events, he shows that reform groups have often been patched-up alliances of planners and libertarians, centralizers and decentralizers. The tradition of freedom and the tradition of welfare?both passing as liberal?haphazardly merged in the New Deal, where only Franklin Roosevelt?s political skill held them together. They began to revert to their natural opposition during the administration of Harry Truman.?One of the most learned, one of the most enlightening, and one of the best-written historical works in a long time.??New York Times. ?A continuous narrative....The author stops the action occasionally to insert significant and brilliant sketches of the leading actors...and illuminates his story with anecdotes. He has wit and erudition.??New Yorker.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039444258X/?tag=2022091-20
(Here, back in print in paperback, is one of the most bril...)
Here, back in print in paperback, is one of the most brilliant and dramatic historical narratives ever written about the American experience. Eric Goldman tells a story of the wise and the shortsighted, the bold and the timid, the generous and the grasping men and women who are the stuff of American reform. He begins in the years after the Civil War, when our tradition of dissent was fueled by industrialization and urbanization. He deals not with theories, alien or native, but with the lives of the dissenters, Populist and Progressive, with their political organizations and schemes, their popular support, the newspapers and newspapermen who controlled them or followed them, the several dramatic flood tides of reform, and the subsequent ebbing. Mr. Goldman has the gift of personal portraiture; by returning directly to men and events, he shows that reform groups have often been patched-up alliances of planners and libertarians, centralizers and decentralizers. The tradition of freedom and the tradition of welfare―both passing as liberal―haphazardly merged in the New Deal, where only Franklin Roosevelt’s political skill held them together. They began to revert to their natural opposition during the administration of Harry Truman.“One of the most learned, one of the most enlightening, and one of the best-written historical works in a long time.”―New York Times. “A continuous narrative....The author stops the action occasionally to insert significant and brilliant sketches of the leading actors...and illuminates his story with anecdotes. He has wit and erudition.”―New Yorker.
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Goldman, Eric Frederick was born on June 17, 1915 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Harry Eric and Bessie (Chapman) Goldman.
Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1935. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1938. SCL, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Humane Letters, Doctor of Laws.
Instructor history, Johns Hopkins, 1938-1941;
writer, Time Magazine, 1941-1943, 45-47;
associate professor of history, Princeton University, 1947-1955;
professor, Princeton University, 1955-1962;
Rollins professor of history, Princeton University, 1962-1985. Special consultant to President of the United States, 1963-1966. State Department lecturer, Europe, 1953-1954, India, 1957.
1st United States representative United States-Canada intellectual exchange program, 1975-1976.
(Eric Goldman's long out of print and difficult to find bo...)
(Here, back in print in paperback, is one of the most bril...)
(Here, back in print in paperback, is one of the most bril...)
(Here, back in print in paperback, is one of the most bril...)
(book has highlightings,pages are dis-colored,but in decen...)
(A History of modern American Reform)
(Lyndon Johnson, biography)
(USED. PB in acceptable condition. Wear to covers/edges/sp...)
Member American Society Historians (president 1962-1969), Century Club (New York City), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Joanna R. Jackson, March 7, 1952 (deceased 1980).