Description: The Discontent of the Intellectuals: a Problem of the Twenties Good+ - Text Unmarked - Binding and Cover Clean and Tight - Ready to Ship By -- Henry May, Series edited by -- Charles Sellers Published by -- Rand McNally & Co., 1963, Chicago, Staple-Bound, 60 Pages, 8.5" X 5.5" X .2", 4 oz. Series - The Berkeley Series in American History "THE TWENTIES ARE ONE OF THE MOST BAFFLING AND INTERESTING DECADES IN American history. (...)If one were asked to name three American writers of the twenties, one might well choose Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, and H. L. Mencken. The only thing these three men have in common is that none was an optimist. Through their work and that of many others, the twenties, the period of Ford and Coolidge and Republican prosperity, have also become associated with the Lost Generation, the Waste Land, and what sociologists call "the alienation of the intellectuals." Actually it was nothing new for American writers to express uneasiness about American life. When the young postwar writers looked backward in literary history they found plenty of doubters. It was this generation that rediscovered Herman Melville and Henry Adams and reinterpreted Mark Twain, changing him from a benign humorist to a frustrated and embittered satirist. Nearly all the criticisms of American civilization made by young rebels in the twenties had been made before the war by middle- aged men like H. L. Mencken and George Santayana. American writers had often been discontented, yet there was something new in the discontent of the twenties. There was more of it, it was louder and sometimes more sweepingly expressed, and it was noticed, and sometimes resented, by the optimistic majority." #HenryFord #Intellectuals #instabooks #bookcollecting #Antiquarian #HLMencken #booksforsale #bibliophile #Scarce #Books #Vintage #BerkeleySeries #Bookstagram #ErnestHemmingway #instaread #RoaringTwenties #readersofinstagram #CuttleboneBooks #collectiblebooks #Rare #TSEliot #booksale #BooksBooksBooks #Bookworm #CalvinCoolidge #LostGeneration #HenryMay
Price: 10 USD
Location: East Orange, New Jersey
End Time: 2024-11-20T22:00:28.000Z
Shipping Cost: 4.63 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Features: Staple-Bound
Format: Staple-Bound
Topic: Books
Book Series: The Berkeley Series in American History
Vintage: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Ex Libris: No
Language: English
Publication Year: 1963
Book Title: The Discontent of the Intellectuals: a Problem of the Twenties
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Author: Henry May, Charles Sellers
Original Language: English
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Rand McNally & Co.
Inscribed: No
Signed: No
Genre: Cultural Criticism, Social Criticism, Intellectuals, The Berkeley Series in American History, Roaring Twenties, Lost Generation
Personalized: No
Type: Treatise
