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This is the first modern critical study of Thomas Hood, the popular and influential nineteenth-century poet, editor, cartoonist and voice of social protest. Acclaimed by Dickens, the Brownings and the Rossettis, Hood's quirky, diverse output bridges the years between 1820 and 1845 and offers fascinating insights for Romanticists and Victorianists alike. Lodge's timely book explores the relationship between Hood's playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary materiality and urban consumption.Each chapter examines something distinctive of interdisciplinary interest, including the early nineteenth-century print culture into which Hood was born; the traditional, urban and political ramifications of the grotesque art and literature aesthetic; the cultural politics of Hood's trademark puns; theatre, leisure and the 'labour question'. Lively and accessible, this book will appeal to scholars of nineteenth-century English Literature, Visual Arts and Cultural Studies.

Hood, Thomas, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. --- English poetry --- Literature --- Poetry By Individual Poets --- POETRY / General --- Literary theory --- Hood punning. --- London Magazine. --- London's liberal politics. --- Thomas Hood. --- comic poetry. --- cultural politics. --- cultural production. --- grotesque idiom. --- illegitimate theatre. --- material entities. --- modern scholarship. --- nineteenth-century poetry. --- print culture.

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Richard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America's most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several groundbreaking books, including The American Political Tradition, he was a vigorous champion of the liberal politics that emerged from the New Deal. During his nearly thirty-year career, Hofstadter fought public campaigns against liberalism's most dynamic opponents, from McCarthy in the 1950's to Barry Goldwater and the Sun Belt conservatives in the 1960's. His opposition to the extreme politics of postwar America-articulated in his books, essays, and public lectures-marked him as one of the nation's most important and prolific public intellectuals. In this masterful biography, David Brown explores Hofstadter's life within the context of the rise and fall of American liberalism. A fierce advocate of academic freedom, racial justice, and political pluralism, Hofstadter charted in his works the changing nature of American society from a provincial Protestant foundation to one based on the values of an urban and multiethnic nation. According to Brown, Hofstadter presciently saw in rural America's hostility to this cosmopolitanism signs of an anti-intellectualism that he believed was dangerously endemic in a mass democracy. By the end of a life cut short by leukemia, Hofstadter had won two Pulitzer Prizes, and his books had attracted international attention. Yet the Vietnam years, as Brown shows, culminated in a conservative reaction to his work that is still with us. Whether one agrees with Hofstadter's critics or with the noted historian John Higham, who insisted that Hofstadter was "the finest and also the most humane intelligence of our generation," the importance of this seminal thinker cannot be denied. As this fascinating biography ultimately shows, Hofstadter's observations on the struggle between conservative and liberal America are relevant to our own times, and his legacy challenges us to this day.

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Tom Waldman's lively and sweeping assessment of the state of American liberalism begins with the political turbulence of 1968 and culminates with the 2006 takeover of Congress by the Democratic Party. Not Much Left: The Fate of Liberalism in America vividly demonstrates how the progressive and liberal wing of the Democratic Party helped end a war, won the civil rights battle, and paved the way for blacks, women, gays, and other minorities to achieve full citizenship. Through reportage, anecdotes, and analysis-particularly of the disastrous defeat of Democrat George McGovern in 1972-Waldman chronicles how the grand coalition that achieved so much in the 1960's began to self-destruct in the early 1970's. Citing the Republican recovery from Barry Goldwater's 1964 defeat, Waldman demonstrates how the two parties' very different reactions to electoral debacle account for recent Republican dominance and Democratic impotence. Assessing liberalism's fate through the Carter and Reagan presidencies, the defeat of Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election, and the on-again, off-again liberalism of the Clinton years, Waldman then brings the discussion up to date with analysis of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Liberalism --- Presidents --- Political campaigns --- Popular culture --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Presidency --- Heads of state --- Executive power --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences --- History --- Election --- Political aspects --- United States --- Politics and government --- 1960s america. --- american history. --- american politics. --- barry goldwater. --- carter. --- democratic party. --- democrats and republicans. --- electoral college. --- george mcgovern. --- history of liberals. --- liberal politics. --- political science. --- political turbulence. --- reagan. --- self sabotage. --- self-destructing party. --- takeover of congress. --- war in iraq. --- war on terror.

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Bold new essays demonstrate how Leonard Bernstein influenced American culture, society, and politics through his conducting, composing, political relationships, and activism.

Bernstein, Leonard, --- Amber, Lenny, --- Bānsutain, Renādo, --- Bernshṭain, Leʼonard, --- Bernshtėĭn, Leanard, --- Bernstaĭn, Leonard, --- Bernstain, Leonarnt, --- Bernstayn, Leonard, --- Bernstein, L. --- Bernstein, Lenny, --- Bernstein, Leonardus, --- Bernstein, Louis, --- Bernsteins, Leonards, --- Boensitan, Lunnade, --- Bŭrnsteĭn, Lenard, --- Striboneen, Randel, --- Μπερνστάιν, Λέοναρντ, --- Бърнстейн, Ленард, --- Бернстайн, Леонард, --- Бернштэйн, Леанард, --- ברנשטיין, ליאונרד, --- バーンスタイン, レナード, --- レナード・バーンスタイン, --- 伦纳德·伯恩斯坦, --- 伯恩斯坦, 伦纳德, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Music and diplomacy --- Music --- History --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- History and criticism. --- Political activity. --- United States --- Washington (D.C.) --- Politics and government --- Songs and music. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Diplomacy and music --- Diplomacy --- Washinton (D.C.) --- Vashington (D.C.) --- Wāshinṭūn (D.C.) --- Nation's Capital (D.C.) --- Corporation of the City of Washington (D.C.) --- Washington City (D.C.) --- Federal City (D.C.) --- Wash. (D.C.) --- City of Washington (D.C.) --- DC (D.C.) --- D.C. (D.C.) --- District of Columbia --- Вашингтон (D.C.) --- Vasington (D.C.) --- Huachengdun (D.C.) --- 华盛顿 (D.C.) --- American culture. --- American history. --- Leonard Bernstein. --- Washington, DC. --- activism. --- artistic landscape. --- composing. --- conducting. --- conservative politics. --- early performances. --- liberal politics. --- music in democracy. --- political relationships. --- political-diplomatic aims. --- politics in music. --- premieres. --- twentieth-century America.