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Books by Michael Kimmage






Collisions
The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
by Michael Kimmage
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 Michael Kimmage
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 Michael Kimmage
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, ..."






Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
Volume II, Issue 2 (Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics, 2) Paperback
by Martha C. Nussbaum, Samuel Moyn, Maria Stepanova, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, William Deresiewicz, Alastair Macaulay, Michael Kimmage, Nicholas Lemann, David Nirenberg, Andrew Motion, Philip Kitcher, Helen Vendler, Aaron Fagan, Elisabeth Lasch Quinn, Collin Channer, Ricardo Nirenberg, Colin Channer, Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn, Leon Wieseltier, Celeste Marcus
Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2022 by Liberties Journal Foundation, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-73571-875-0, ISBN: 1-73571-875-0






Journey Through America(1st Edition)
(Transatlantic Perspectives)
by Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Kimmage, Alex J. Kay
Hardcover, 172 Pages, Published 2012 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-231-3, ISBN: 0-85745-231-2

" 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 Michael Kimmage
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 ..."






Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
Volume I, Issue 4 (Liberties, 1)
by Elliot Ackerman, Durs Grünbein, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Anita Shapira, Adam Zagajewski, Sally Satel, R.B. Kitaj, Matthew Stephenson, Helen Vendler, David Haziza, A.E. Stallings, Paul Berman, Clara Collier, Michael Kimmage, Peg Boyers, Leon Wieseltier, Celeste Marcus
Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2021 by Liberties Journal Foundation, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-73571-873-6, ISBN: 1-73571-873-4

"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."






Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.
In History's Grip : Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy
by Michael Kimmage
216 Pages, Published 2012 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-8367-5, ISBN: 0-8047-8367-5

"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 ..."






Transatlantic Perspectives
Journey Through America 1
by Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Kimmage
172 Pages, Published 2012 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-437-9, ISBN: 0-85745-437-4

"... 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 ..."






The TransAtlantic reconsidered
The Atlantic world in crisis
by Charlotte A. Lerg, Susanne Lachenicht, Michael Kimmage
200 Pages, Published 2018 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-1940-7, ISBN: 1-5261-1940-4

"... 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, ..."






The Decline of the West
An American Story
by Michael Kimmage
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-62117-232-1, ISBN: 1-62117-232-5






Harvard Historical Studies
The Conservative Turn : Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism 165
by Michael Kimmage
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 ..."






The TransAtlantic reconsidered
The Atlantic world in crisis (Key Studies in Diplomacy)
by Charlotte A. Lerg, Michael Kimmage, Susanne Lachenicht
Paperback, Published 2020 by Manchester University Press, Manchester
ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-1939-1, ISBN: 1-5261-1939-0

"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 Michael Kimmage
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."






Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
Volume III, Issue #2 (Paperback)
by Michael Ignatieff, Mary Gaitskill, Sergei Lebedev, Antonia Bouis, Karen Solie, Michael Walzer, David A. Bell, Michael C. Kimmage, Andrew Scull, Robert Alter, Steven B. Smith, Benjamin Moser, Helen Vendler, John Hodgen, Adam Zagajewski, Liberties Journal Foundation, Leon Wieseltier, Celeste Marcus
Paperback, Published 2023 by Liberties Journal
ISBN-13: 978-1-73571-879-8, ISBN: 1-73571-879-3

"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, ..."






Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon
Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies (Hardcover))
by Justin Daniel Cammy, Dara Horn, Alyssa Quint, Rachel Rubinstein, David Aberbach, Edward Alexander, Marion Aptroot, Marc Caplan, Jeremy Dauber, Ken Frieden, Leah Garrett, Janet Hadda, Hillel Halkin, Philip Hollander, Michael Kimmage, Susanne Klingenstein, Mikhail Krutikov, Ezra Mendelsohn, Alan Mintz, Dan Miron, Goldie Morgentaler, Avraham Novershtern, Cynthia Ozick, Yavron Peleg, Jonathan Rosen, David Roskies, Sasha Senderovich, Naomi Sokoloff, Ilan Stavans, Miriam Udel-Lambert, Emily Miller Budick, Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Beatrice Lang Caplan, Hana Wirth-Nesher, Jed Wyrick, Ruth R. Wisse
Hardcover, 721 Pages, Published 2009 by Harvard University Center For Jewish Studies
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02585-1, ISBN: 0-674-02585-7

" 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 ..."






Evil Empire
(Boston Review / Forum)
by Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen, Adom Getachew, Maximillian Alvarez, Arundhati Roy, Avni Sejpal, Stuart Schrader, Marisol Lebron, Pankaj Mishra, Wajahat Ali, Jeanne Morefield, Michael Kimmage, Frank Pasquale, Mark Bould, Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman, Nikhil Pal Singh, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Junot Dã­Az, Junot Diaz
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2018 by Boston Review
ISBN-13: 978-1-946511-11-9, ISBN: 1-946511-11-0

"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 ..."

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