| Description |
1 online resource (410 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Writing Historians' Lives; PART I: Lives; 1. Beginnings; 2. Harvard, the 1930s, and the Making of a Historical Generation; 3. Other American Colleges and Universities; 4. The English University Experience in the 1930s; 5. V Was for Victory; 6. Building Careers in the Postwar World; 7. At the Pinnacle (Mostly); 8. Teaching; PART II: Achievement; 9. The Cultural Critics; 10. The Controversialists; 11. The Archival Revolution; 12. Synthesis, Printed Sources, and Other Kinds of History; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes |
| Summary |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., John Hope Franklin, Daniel Boorstin, C. Vann Woodward, Edmund S. Morgan, Barbara Tuckman, Eric Hobsbawn, Hugh Trevor Roper, Lawrence Stone -- aside from carrying the distinction as some of the most successful and well-respected historians of the twentieth century, these scholars found their lives and careers evolving amid some of the world's pivotal historical moments. Dubbed the World War II Generation, the twenty-two English and American historians chronicled by William Palmer grew up in the aftermath of World War I, went to college in the 1930s as the threats of |
| Bibliography |
BibliographyAcknowledgments; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Historians -- United States -- Biography
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History -- Study and teaching -- United States
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Historians
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History -- Study and teaching
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140518
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813159270 |
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081315927X |
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