Anti-intellectualism is a longish book (and his best, imo.)
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Replying to @yeselson
Indeed, shouldn’t have grouped them together. But it’s not his best... Age of Reform or Idea of a Party System are better.
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Replying to @AntonJaegermm
Yeah, Idea of Party System is a really important book on just that, often forgotten. Age of Reform is...complicated. Actually Am Pol Tradition is an amazing performance—linked essays that create an historiographical narrative.
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Replying to @yeselson
I think most of the empirics in Age of Reform are spectacularly wrong, but there are some deep analytical insights buried in that book that are worth retaining. Am Pol Tradition feels too much like a "they're all the same" exposé.
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Replying to @AntonJaegermm @yeselson
Anti-Intellectualism is patronizing and often ignorant on religion I adore his prose and sensibility about the past but Progressive Historians is his most persuasive book
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It's also where he comes to terms with some of his blindspots--though American Political Tradition is my favorite, in part, because the residues of a radical past are all over the book, including essay on Wendell Phillip's abolitionism and then later socialism and labor militancy
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Replying to @davidimarcus @mkazin and
I was just re-reading APT and, it's mostly great but I'm starting to notice a glibness that's disconcerting. On page 1 he describes the Founding Fathers as having a "Calvinistic sense of human evil and damnation" which is ... largely not true
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I think that's entirely fair. Nearly all of his books were shot through with both interpretive insight & shoot-from-the-hip polemic (like his fellow NY intellectuals), something that made him a compelling writer but also excited next generation to offer many revisions of his work
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Replying to @davidimarcus @HeerJeet and
While Michael might not like this, I think this actually is what links his work to Zinn's even as they followed very different political trajectories--both left a string of compelling theses that needed to be either disputed or confirmed
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Replying to @davidimarcus @HeerJeet and
I agree - except comparing his work to Zinn's is like comparing fettucine al pesto with a fine Barolo to a Big Mac and a Coke. Both are wildly popular but...
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Your more likely to build broad coalitions if you go with the Big Mac and Coke.
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