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...Michael Denning Copyright © September, 1986 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1986 Class and Culture: Reflections on the Work of Warren Susman Michael Denning This talk was given to the University Seminar on the History...

.... A volume under our joint editorship is forthcoming. Perhaps the most striking element to emerge from those inter- views was the determination with which the graduate student gen- eration of Herb Gutman and Warren Susman rejected predominant Cold War historical scholarship in both its liberal...

... of Warren Susman, Herbert Gutman, Paul Buhle, and others) and was crucial to the analysis of gender as witnessed by the work of Mary Jo Buhle, Elizabeth Ewen, and Wini Breines. What are the connections between the seemingly ”traditional” aspects of the new diplomatic history and the fact...

... the cultural historian Warren Susman. Susman became a major inspiration to Ron, a key mentor and great friend for decades until his untimely death in 1985. Susman enhanced Ron’s growing enthusiasm for intellectual and cultural history, his predilection for theory, and his radical historical orientation...

.... Williams felt comfortable in the manly world of smoke-filled rooms. Years later, Warren Susman recalled those halcyon days as the ”smoking room of American history.” This site traditionally had no place for women be- yond traditional roles, and as radical as Williams later became, he re- mained...

... to Herbert Gutman and Warren Susman, Memories of Madison in the Fifties. 36:lOl-9. Obituary of C.L.R. James. 4614744546. 148/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW Buhle, Paul, and Jo Blatti. Reds: A Symposium. 26:153-63. Bundy, Colin. An Image of Its Own Past? Towards a Comparison...

... of faction,” a pleasure taken in vagary and caprice.6 Twenty years ago Warren Susman put his finger on this tension in hard-boiled crime fiction when he noted that it was a popular litera- ture well suited to the culture of the thirties for its ability to balance freedom and moral commitment...

... an important contribution to our understanding of the transformation of American culture by recovering a turn-of-the-century discourse about selfhood that does not fit either ”the culture of character” or ”the culture of personality” models that historians have inherited from the late War- ren Susman...

... of the New Deal (Schlesinger, William A. Williams) and social and cultural histories of the Thirties (Susman and Pells) to provide a psychic history of the Thirties. Terkel's subjects talked of the emotional wounds of those years—the sense of per• sonal guilt and fear, the intense familial conflict...

... organize were already familiar with it as a part of the musical culture of the Mexican Revolution. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran Bill Susman recalls finding much the same shared musical heritage among his comrades at the battle- fronts and in the hospitals of Republican Spain. He remembers hearing...

... contexts. The New York World’s fair, which inspired Warren Susman’s celebrated essay on ”The People’s Fair,” has at last received the extensive treatment it deserves in David Gelertner’s 1939, The Lost World ofthe Fair (New York: Free Press, 1995). Because the experience of visiting a world’s...

... and graduate work (along with Warren Susman) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the early 1940s. After post-grad work at the University of Paris, he taught at Oberlin College for three years and Ohio State for twelve. He then returned to the Madison campus (joining William Appleman Williams...

.... In Radical Visions and American Dreams, Richard Pells tackles a formidable subject. His is really the first attempt to write a comprehensive history of liberal-radical writers and thinkers during the de• pression. Following out lines of analysis developed by Warren Susman and, to a lesser extent...

... University Press, 1992), and James Gilbert on anything and anybody he has written about. 3. Any article or book by Neil Harris and Warren Susman, who belong in a category of their own. 4. Works that cross over the boundaries of social and cultural histo- ry, and social histories that rely...

... in People’s History and Socialist Theory, ed. Ralph Samuel (1981). Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1977). Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (1991, rev. ed Warren Susman, Culture as History: The Transformation...

... University Press, 1987). In Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1920 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986), Susan Porter Benson grounds consumption in labor-management rela- tions. Warren Susman, by contrast, sees consumption itself...

... to Abraham Lincoln (Cam- bridge: Harvard University Press, 1997); Warren I. Susman, ’‘ ’Personality’ and the Making of Twentieth-Century Culture,” in Susman, Culture as Histoy: The Transforma- tion of American Society in the Twentieth Century (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984); Christopher Lasch...

... responds that Tyrrel got it all wrong2” Tyrrel does of course have a point-world-system perspective can do for American history what the study of American diplo- macy did for Bill Williams: ”Williams discovering America, almost like Columbus,” in Warren Susman’s brilliant obse~ation?~Wil...

... années 50,”Internationale situationniste, no. 3 (Paris: 1959), 11 – 16, trans. Thomas Y. Levine as “Unitary Urbanism at the End of the 1950s,” in Elisabeth Susman, ed., On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International, 1957 – 1972...

...• iness as usual. The papers by Marxists at the conference—by Harold D. Wood• man, Jay R. Mandle, Octavio Ianni, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Raimondo Luraghi, and Orlando Patterson—and also the ex• tended commentaries by Emilia Viotti da Costa, Christopher Lasch, Warren Susman, and others, raised...