Collisions The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability by MichaelKimmage Hardcover, 297 Pages, Published 2024 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-775179-4, ISBN: 0-19-775179-2
"... Michael Thumann , Revanche : Wie Putin das bedrohlichste Regime der Welt geschaffen hat ( Munich : C. H. Beck , 2023 ) . [ Revanche : How Putin Created the World's Most Threatening Regime ] . 15. On ( qualified ) sympathy for Russia ..."
The Abandonment of the West The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy by MichaelKimmage Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2020 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-05590-6, ISBN: 0-465-05590-7
"How the idea of the West drove twentieth-century US foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving Throughout the twentieth century, many Americans saw themselves as part of Western civilization, and Western ideals of liberty and self-government guided American diplomacy. But today, other ideas fill this role: on one side, a technocratic "liberal international order," and on the other, the illiberal nationalism of "A ..."
The Conservative Turn(1st Edition) Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (Harvard Historical Studies) by MichaelKimmage Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2009 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03258-3, ISBN: 0-674-03258-6
" The Conservative Turn tells the story of postwar America’s political evolution through two fascinating figures: Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers. Born at the turn of the twentieth century, they were college classmates who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. A spy for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, Chambers became the main witness in the 1948 trial of Alger Hiss, ..."
" Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. A major twentieth-century German writer, Koeppen presents a vivid and fascinating portrait of the US in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, its troubled race relations, its multi-culturalism and its vast loneliness, a motif drawn, in part, from Kafka's Amerika. A modernist travelogue ..."
In History's Grip(1st Edition) Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by MichaelKimmage Hardcover, 212 Pages, Published 2012 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-8182-4, ISBN: 0-8047-8182-6
"In History's Grip concentrates on the literature of Philip Roth, one of America's greatest writers, and in particular on American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain. Each of these novels from the 1990s uses Newark, New Jersey, to explore American history and character. Each features a protagonist who grows up in and then leaves Newark, after which he is undone by a historically generated crisis. The city's twentieth-ce ..."
"This summer issue of Liberties includes: Elliot Ackerman on Veterans Are Not Victims; Durs Grünbein on Fascism and the Writer; R.B. Kitaj's Three Tales; Thomas Chatterton Williams on The Blessings of Assimilation; Anita Shapira on The Fall ..."
ABANDONMENT OF THE WEST The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy by Michael. Kimmage Published 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-4605-6, ISBN: 1-5416-4605-3
"We must revive the West, he argues, to counter authoritarian challenges from Russia and China. This is an urgent portrait of modern America's complicated origins, its emergence as a superpower, and the crossroads at which it now stands."
"Both adjectives make the American theme both more and less self-evident,
complicating the distinction between Franz Kafka and Gerald Ford. Interestingly,
it is Ford's pardon of Nixon, not the Watergate scandal per se, that unsettles
human affairs and reveals the White House to be a Central European castle. The
land surveyor K. is the American people transformed by the 1960s: “It is as
though the American public, having for a decade ..."
"... then came the Green River, and the powerful Colorado Valley was around us,
towering over us, building itself up over us, as we ... sway in the air over the river,
whose water was forever time- less, pre-historic, a friend only to the adventurer,
the red stones ... the book Koeppen saw on the train is Ruth Cranston's The
Miracle ofLourdes (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955). Luise Rinser (1911–2002)
was a German writer who published D ..."
"... Atlantic Crisis: American Diplomacy Confronts a Resurgent Europe (New York:
Norton, 1964); R. Steel, The End of Alliance: America and the Future of Europe (
New York: The Viking Press, 1964); R. L. Pfaltzgraff, The Atlantic Community, ..."
Harvard Historical Studies The Conservative Turn : Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism 165 by MichaelKimmage 440 Pages, Published 2009 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05412-7, ISBN: 0-674-05412-1
"On the general subject of Americans traveling to the Soviet Union see Paul
Hollander, Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union,
China and Cuba, 1928–1978 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), 102–
176. 58. Hook, Out of Step, 179. 59. Quoted in Aaron, Writers on the Left, 243. 60.
Lionel Trilling, “Sainte-Beuve,” review of Sainte-Beuve: A Literary Portrait by
William Frederick Giese, Nation 134 (A ..."
"This volume provides an academic foundation to critically assess the Atlantic World and to rethink transatlantic relations in a transnational and global perspective.The TransAtlantic reconsidered brings together leading experts such as ..."
The Abandonment of the West The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy by MichaelKimmage 384 Pages, Published 2020 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-4604-9, ISBN: 1-5416-4604-5
"We must revive the West, he argues, to counter authoritarian challenges from Russia and China. This is an urgent portrait of modern America's complicated origins, its emergence as a superpower, and the crossroads at which it now stands."
"Nobel Prize winners, leading op-ed writers, well-known non-fiction writers, rising talents, and poets from around the world are part of the Liberties series.There's a reason why engaged citizens, cultural warriors, political leaders, ..."
" Over the past four decades Ruth R. Wisse has been a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies in North America, and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society, culture, and politics. In this celebratory volume, edited by four of her former students, Wisse's colleagues take as a starting point her award-winning book The Modern Jewish Canon (2000) and explore an array of topics that ..."
"Investigation of power and dominion, through the lens of genre fiction, interviews, and essays.“All history,” writes Maximillian Alvarez, “is the history of empire―a bid for control of that greatest expanse of territory, the past.” Evil Empire confronts these histories head-on, exploring the motivations, consequences, and surprising resiliency of empire and its narratives. Contributors grapple with the economic, technological, racial, a ..."