The Intellectuals and the Flag
Todd Gitlin
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Introduction: From Great Refusal to Political Retreat
I. Three Exemplary Intellectuals
1. David Riesman’s Lonely Crowd
2. C. Wright Mills, Free Radical
3. Irving Howe’s Partition
II. Two Traps and Three Values
4. The Postmodernist Mood
5. The Antipolitical Populism of Cultural Studies
6. The Values of Media, Citizenship, and Higher Education
III. The Intellectuals and the Flag
Acknowledgments
Index
Related Subjects
About the Author
Todd Gitlin, Professor of Journalism and Sociology at Columbia University, B.A., Harvard; M.A., Michigan; Ph.D., Berkeley. Former professor, Culture, Journalism and Sociology, New York University; professor, Sociology and Director of Mass Communications, University of California, Berkeley; lecturer, Board of Community Studies, Santa Cruz; lecturer, New College, San Jose State; visiting professor, Yale, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales (Paris), Iowa, Oslo (Norway), Wesleyan. Author, Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago (1970); Busy Being Born (1974); The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the Left (1981); Inside Prime Time (1983); The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (1987); Watching Television, editor (1987); The Murder of Albert Einstein (1992); The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars (1995); Sacrifice (1999); Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (2002); Letters To a Young Activist (2003). Recipient, Harold U. Ribalow Prize, 2000; Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Nonfiction Award. Research grants: MacArthur Foundation, Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship. Contributing writer, Mother Jones. Member editorial board, Dissent and The American Scholar.
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