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Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years

Richard H. Pells

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Description:This book attempts to explore the impact of the Depression on American culture and social thought. More specifically, it focuses on the efforts of a number of leading American intellectuals to discover alternatives to those political beliefs, economic institutions, social values, and artistic preoccupations that had dominated the nation prior to 1929. In this enterprise, many writers and artists hoped to persuade their fellow citizens that the American people could never be adequately fed or clothed or housed or employed as long as they continued to rely on a capitalist economy, that the U.S. must break at last with the liberal tradition both politically and philosophically, that an individualistic and competitive value system had become not only obsolete but inherently destructive to the nation's social and psychic stability, and that the country desperately needed a new literature, a new theater, and a new cinema in order to bring all of these changes about.These ideas led in turn to an intensification of the intellectual's desire to overcome his historic isolation from public affairs, to make his essays and novels and plays and films more meaningful in the lives of ordinary people, to devise a realistic program and strategy for democratic socialism, to create a new spirit of community and cooperation, and to help inspire a genuine political and cultural revolution that would transform the lives of every American.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years. To get started finding Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book attempts to explore the impact of the Depression on American culture and social thought. More specifically, it focuses on the efforts of a number of leading American intellectuals to discover alternatives to those political beliefs, economic institutions, social values, and artistic preoccupations that had dominated the nation prior to 1929. In this enterprise, many writers and artists hoped to persuade their fellow citizens that the American people could never be adequately fed or clothed or housed or employed as long as they continued to rely on a capitalist economy, that the U.S. must break at last with the liberal tradition both politically and philosophically, that an individualistic and competitive value system had become not only obsolete but inherently destructive to the nation's social and psychic stability, and that the country desperately needed a new literature, a new theater, and a new cinema in order to bring all of these changes about.These ideas led in turn to an intensification of the intellectual's desire to overcome his historic isolation from public affairs, to make his essays and novels and plays and films more meaningful in the lives of ordinary people, to devise a realistic program and strategy for democratic socialism, to create a new spirit of community and cooperation, and to help inspire a genuine political and cultural revolution that would transform the lives of every American.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years. To get started finding Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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