Modern Intellectual History

Table of Contents - August 2012 - Volume 9, Issue 02  

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Review Essays

THE BIG PICTURE AND THE CLOSEUP: TWO PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY*

PAUL S. BOYERa1**

a1 Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison E-mail: capper@bu.edu

Daniel T. Rodgers, Age of Fracture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011)

James T. Kloppenberg, Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011)

Footnotes

* My thanks to Charles Capper and Ann Boyer for their helpful critical readings of earlier drafts of this review.

** Sadly, on 17 March 2012, several months after he delivered this review essay, Paul Boyer passed away.