Background
Abzug, Robert Henry was born on May 2, 1945 in New York City. Son of F. Seymour William and Frances (Wolff) Abzug.
(Forty years ago Allied soldiers liberated Buchenwald, Dac...)
Forty years ago Allied soldiers liberated Buchenwald, Dachau, Belsen, and other concentration camps, and came face to face with the human ruins of the Nazi system of slave labor and genocide. What they saw transformed the definition of evil in the Western mind. Inside the Vicious Heart captures the shock of that discovery by telling the story of the camp liberations as experienced by American GIs and other eyewitnesses, including Eisenhower, Patton, Joseph Pulitzer, and Margaret Bourke-White. Through their diaries, letters, and photographs we see how those Americans finally made the world believe what until then had only been rumored.
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(Recounts Weld's intense childhood, his stormy religious c...)
Recounts Weld's intense childhood, his stormy religious conversion, his entry into the world of reform, and finally, his rejection of public life.
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(In the forty years before the Civil War, America was awas...)
In the forty years before the Civil War, America was awash in political and social reform movements. Abolitionists stormed against the cruelties of slavery. Temperance zealots hounded producers and consumers of strong drink. Sabbatarians fought to make Sunday an officially recognized sacred day. Woman's rights activists proclaimed the case for sexual equality. This colorful text brilliantly reassesses the religious roots of these antebellum reform movements through a series of penetrating profiles of key men and women who sought to remake their worlds in sacred terms. Arguing that we cannot understand American reform movements unless we understand the sacred significance reformers bestowed on the worldly arenas of politics, society, and the economy, Abzug presents these men and women in their own words, placing their cherished ideals and their often heated squabbles within the context of their millennial and sometimes apocalyptic sense of America's role in the cosmic drama. Tracing the lasting impact of what began as a peculiarly Protestant, largely New England, style of social action on the uniquely American traditions of activism that flourish today, Cosmos Crumbling is invaluable for helping students of American and religious history understand the myriad ways in which the quest for enlightenment and salvation continues to shape American politics.
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Abzug, Robert Henry was born on May 2, 1945 in New York City. Son of F. Seymour William and Frances (Wolff) Abzug.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1977.
Lecturer, University of California at Los Angeles, 1977-1978; from assistant professor to professor, University Texas, Austin, since 1978; director religious studies program, University Texas, Austin, 1989-1990; director American studies program, University Texas, Austin, 1990-1996; director liberal arts honors program, University Texas, Austin, since 1997. Eric Voegelin visiting professor U. Munich, Germany, 1990-1991.
(Forty years ago Allied soldiers liberated Buchenwald, Dac...)
(Recounts Weld's intense childhood, his stormy religious c...)
(In the forty years before the Civil War, America was awas...)
Trustee George Washington Carver Museum African-American History, Austin, 1980-1983. Member American History Association, Organisation American Historians, American Studies Association Texas (president 1996), Internet on the Holocaust and Denocide, Institute for the Humanities of Salado (Texas board directors), Pen-Texas (chairman Austin chapter), Society Historians of the Early Republic, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Beta Alpha Phi.
Married Penne Lee Restad, November 16, 1980. Children: Benjamin Cameron, Johanna Wolff.