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The Creative Society -- and the Price Americans Paid for It

Louis P. Galambos

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Description:"The Creative Society -- and the price Americans paid for theircreativity" is about four ongoing problems that the United States had tosolve in the long twentieth century, from the 1890s through the presentday.One of them was what the author calls the innovation crisis inAmerican capitalism; another was the governance crisis in domesticpolitics; a third was an urban crisis over life and death in the nation'scities; and the fourth was created by the necessity to establish a newrelationship to the rest of the world. The need to provide solutions tothese problems created a great demand in American society forexpertise, and that gave rise to a broad professionalization movementthat the author tracks through the century. Sometimes the experts weresuccessful, sometimes they failed. For better and worse, they changedAmerica's public sphere, its government, its economy, and its role in theworld. They altered our lives and helped to mold a new society thatcontinues to work toward solutions to these fundamental problems.This paper is a prospectus for a book being written and thus the essayattempts to skim over the surface of more than one hundred years ofhistory and almost a century of professional historiography.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 The Creative Society -- and the Price Americans Paid for It. To get started finding The Creative Society -- and the Price Americans Paid for It, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "The Creative Society -- and the price Americans paid for theircreativity" is about four ongoing problems that the United States had tosolve in the long twentieth century, from the 1890s through the presentday.One of them was what the author calls the innovation crisis inAmerican capitalism; another was the governance crisis in domesticpolitics; a third was an urban crisis over life and death in the nation'scities; and the fourth was created by the necessity to establish a newrelationship to the rest of the world. The need to provide solutions tothese problems created a great demand in American society forexpertise, and that gave rise to a broad professionalization movementthat the author tracks through the century. Sometimes the experts weresuccessful, sometimes they failed. For better and worse, they changedAmerica's public sphere, its government, its economy, and its role in theworld. They altered our lives and helped to mold a new society thatcontinues to work toward solutions to these fundamental problems.This paper is a prospectus for a book being written and thus the essayattempts to skim over the surface of more than one hundred years ofhistory and almost a century of professional historiography.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 The Creative Society -- and the Price Americans Paid for It. To get started finding The Creative Society -- and the Price Americans Paid for It, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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