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South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (3): 315–317.
Published: 01 July 1986
...Robert F. Durden Gone with the Ivy: A Biography of Vanderbilt University . By Conkin Paul K. , assisted by Swint Henry Lee Miletich Patricia S. . Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , 1985 . Pp. xiii , 810 . $49.50 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (3): 336–337.
Published: 01 July 1985
...William R. Childs TVA: Fifty Years of Grass-Roots Bureaucracy . Edited by Hargrove Edwin C. Conkin Paul K. . Champaign : The University of Illinois Press , 1984 . Pp. ix , 345 . $24.95 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 336 The South Atlantic Quarterly...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1979) 78 (2): 259–260.
Published: 01 April 1979
...Paul K. Conkin The Pursuit of Equality in American History . By Pole J. R. . Berkeley . University of California Press , 1978 . Pp. 380 . $14.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 BOOKS The Pursuit of Equality in American History. By J. R. Pole. Berkeley...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (3): 337–338.
Published: 01 July 1985
... some important insights among thejargon-laden socialscience essays. For example, the historian Paul Conkin reveals that the empha­ sis on regional planning associated with TVA has been built upon a myth (created by Franklin Roosevelt and others) that TVA was to be a broad-based reform showcase. In fact...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (3): 314–315.
Published: 01 July 1986
...-nosed sensitivity to distortion and half-truth. This is an important book, nicely produced by the University of Georgia Press. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY RICHARD B. SCHWARTZ Gone with the Ivy: A Biography of Vanderbilt University. By Paul K. Conkin, assisted by Henry Lee Swint and Patricia S. Miletich...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (3): 317.
Published: 01 July 1986
..., Conkin frankly expresses his doubts. The South, by its poverty, its racial exclusiveness, and its cultural backwardness, long insured Vanderbilt s lowly rank in any national perspective, he explains. That it is so much less a handicap today, though still a handicap, is Vanderbilt s single most...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1979) 78 (2): 260–261.
Published: 01 April 1979
... of these conundrums in an extended analysis of the implications of sex­ ual equality. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PAUL K. CONKIN Letters to W. B. Yeats. Edited by Richard J. Finneran, George Mills Harper, and William M. Murphy. 2 vols. New York: Colum­ bia University Press, 1977. Pp. vii, 302; 628. $37.50. Though...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (3): 335–336.
Published: 01 July 1985
... to film and theater criticism. It will interest those who seek a compact summary of Kazan s work. HARVARD UNIVERSITY LINDA SIMON TVA: Fifty Years of Grass-Roots Bureaucracy. Edited by Edwin C. Hargrove and Paul K. Conkin. Champaign: The University of Illinois Press, 1984. Pp. ix, 345. $24.95. As with so...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1980) 79 (2): 204–218.
Published: 01 April 1980
... sions of nature. However, Borsodi did not consider himself a romantic, 5. The Distribution Age (New York, 1927), pp. 316-21. See Donald Davidson, I ll Take My Stand : A History, pp. 301-21. Davidson also argued that excess capital should be used to support the arts. 6. Paul Conkin, Tomorrow a New...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1983) 82 (1): 79–92.
Published: 01 January 1983
... s trip 5. For a brilliant pioneering essay see Neil Harris, Iconography and Intellectual His­ tory: The Half-Tone Effect, pp. 196-211, in John Higham and Paul K. Conkin, eds., New Directions in American Intellectual History (Baltimore, 1979). 90 The South Atlantic Quarterly on the lower...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (1): 12–26.
Published: 01 January 1985
...&W singles on Billboards charts (at forty-six weeks), and a list of other classics including Jambalaya, Hey, Good 12. For examples, see William Leuchtenburg, A Troubled Feast, pp. 69-83; Conkin and Burner, A History of Recent America, pp. 620-29; Link and Catton, American Epoch, pp. 631-64. 13...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (1-2): 35–57.
Published: 01 January 1999
.... Susman, Personality and the Making ofTwentieth-Century Culture," in New Directions in American Intellectual History, ed. John Higham and Paul K. Conkin (Balti­ more, 1979), 212-26; quotation from 220. Susman s work has since been interestingly complicated by Karen Haltunnen s Confidence Men...