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Whitfield, Stephen Jack was born on December 3, 1942 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of Bert and Joan Whitfield.
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American Space, Jewish Time
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"This is a delightful book, a small gem replete with insightful, provocative pieces about both American culture and Jewish life. I think that Stephen Whitfield is one of the most original essayists on these two topics. Few other scholars combine the density of his knowledge with the verve of his prose". -- Hasia R. Diner, New York University
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Scott Nearing: Apostle of American Radicalism by Stephen J. Whitfield (1974-06-03)
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American Space, Jewish Time by Stephen J. Whitfield (1996-07-31)
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Scott Nearing: Apostle of American Radicalism
(Many know of Scott Nearing in the context of his retreat ...)
Many know of Scott Nearing in the context of his retreat from the urban environment to the simpler world of homesteading, subsistence farming, and vegetarianism, so movingly portrayed in the book written with his wife "Living the Good Life." This Scott Nearing of contemporary counter-cultural myth is a beatific nonagenarian, who has escaped the corrupt influence of American capitalist society in order to return to a natural life woven from romantic, bucolic ideals. Yet many others are aware of another, earlier aspect of Nearing's singular career; and it is to his political radicalism that Whitfield's perceptive, gracefully written biography is primarily devoted. Nearing is among the very few surviving old Progressives from the turn of the century, who moved beyond liberalism into the Socialist and then the Communist parties. He felt forced to leave the Party, however, in 1930. Nearing's extraordinary vibrancy and influence, through oratory, pamphleteering, and personal example, are depicted as illustrative of significant aspects of modern American radicalism.
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By Stephen J. Whitfield - The Culture of the Cold War (2nd Edition) (3/23/96)
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A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald by Stephen Whitfield (1984-11-03)
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A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till by Stephen J. Whitfield (1991-11-01)
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Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews in American Life and Thought
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A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till
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In August 1955, the mutilated body of Emmett Till―a fourteen-year-old black Chicago youth―was pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Abducted, severely beaten, and finally thrown into the river with a weight fastened around his neck with barbed wire, Till, an eighth-grader, was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The nation was horrified by Till's death. When the all-white, all-male jury hastily acquitted the two white defendants, the outcry reached a frenzied pitch―spurring a fury that would prove critical in the mobilization of black resistance to white racism in the Deep South. In this sensitive inquiry, historian Stephen J. Whitfield probes Till's death; its ideological roots; the potent myths concerning race, sexuality, and violence; and the incident's enduring effects on American national life. As he recreates the trial, its participants, and the social structure of the Delta, Whitfield examines how white rural Mississippians actually tried "two of their own." Though they were acquitted, these same defendants were soon being ostracized by their own neighbors, and within four months of Till's death, Southern blacks were staging the historic Montgomery bus boycott―the first major battle in the coming war against racial injustice that would lead to the passage of civil rights legislation a decade later.
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The Culture of the Cold War (The American Moment)
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"Without the Cold War, what's the point of being an American?" As if in answer to this poignant question from John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, Stephen Whitfield examines the impact of the Cold War―and its dramatic ending―on American culture in an updated version of his highly acclaimed study. In a new epilogue to this second edition, he extends his analysis from the McCarthyism of the 1950s, including its effects on the American and European intelligensia, to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and beyond. Whitfield treats his subject matter with the eye of a historian, reminding the reader that the Cold War is now a thing of the past. His treatment underscores the importance of the Cold War to our national identity and forces the reader to ask, Where do we go from here? The question is especially crucial for the Cold War historian, Whitfield argues. His new epilogue is partly a guide for new historians to tackle the complexities of Cold War studies.
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A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald
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Stephen Jack Whitfield
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Tulane University, 1964; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis U., 1972.
Career
Instructor, Southern U., New Orleans, 1966-1968; from assistant professor to associate professor, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 72-85; professor, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, since 1985. Visiting professor Hebrew U., Jerusalem, Israel, 1983-1984.
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The Culture of the Cold War (The American Moment)
( "Without the Cold War, what's the point of being an Ame...)
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Scott Nearing: Apostle of American Radicalism
(Many know of Scott Nearing in the context of his retreat ...)
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A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till
( In August 1955, the mutilated body of Emmett Till―a fou...)
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American Space, Jewish Time
("This is a delightful book, a small gem replete with insi...)
- Scott Nearing: Apostle of American Radicalism by Stephen J. Whitfield (1974-06-03)
- American Space, Jewish Time by Stephen J. Whitfield (1996-07-31)
- By Stephen J. Whitfield - The Culture of the Cold War (2nd Edition) (3/23/96)
- A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald by Stephen Whitfield (1984-11-03)
- A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till by Stephen J. Whitfield (1991-11-01)
- Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews in American Life and Thought
- A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald
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The Culture of the Cold War (The American Moment)
Membership
Member American Jewish History Society (member academic county).
Connections
Married Donna Elaine Arzt, August 21, 1977 (divorced 1983). Married Lee Cone, December 15, 1984. Children: Kimberly, Andrea.
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