...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 of...

.... 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...

... and cultural history (in the persons 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...

... bloodless battle of sport. 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...

... workers she was helping 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...

... 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...

... accounts 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...

... tual 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...

... from the late War- ren Susman. Much like Randolph Bourne and the other members of the ”Young America” circle, Livingston’s figures envisioned a ”social self” emerging in the political struggles of the labor and women’s movements of their day, which they sought to distinguish from both classical...

... once described as ”the delights 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...

..., Goldberg did his undergraduate 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...

... York: Simon & Schuster, 1994); On twentieth-century urban communities: William Taylor, In Pursuit of Gotham (New York Oxford 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...

... 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 of...

... Warren Susman and, to a lesser extent, Christopher Lasch (1), Pells tries to account for the often con• tradictory nature of much of the thought and culture of the thirties. If in the process, Pells tends to be more encyclopedic than analytical, more prone to summarize books and articles...

... vibe. 7. Sadler, The Situationist City, 99. 8. Anonymous, “L’urbanisme unitary à la fin des 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...

...- macy did for Bill Williams: ”Williams discovering America, almost like Columbus,” in Warren Susman’s brilliant obse~ation?~Wil- liams reads America from the outside-in, to put it another way. But to see Louis Hartz as the grand American exceptionalist, as Tyrrel and others do, is to get things...

..., 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 the fundamental problems of the consequences of the master-slave relation and of the precapitalist tendencies within...