...Brom Weber Life among the Surrealists: A Memoir . By Josephson Matthew . New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston , 1962 . Pp. 403 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 560 The South Atlantic Quarterly Ford believed that Christism was a product...

... than any other writer in the twentieth century, the muckraking popular historian Matthew Josephson was responsible for the wide dissemination of such a nega­ tive view of politics during the Gilded Age. His monumental study The Politicos, written from a Marxist perspective and inspired by his close...

... is to be highly recommended. It is wellwritten throughout, precise in its terminology, and agreeably unpreten­ tious. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY FRANK MACSHANE Life among the Surrealists: A Memoir. By Matthew Josephson. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1962. Pp. 403. $6.00. The American 1920 s, like...

...Burl Noggle The Ku Klux Klan in American Politics . By Rice Arnold S. . With Introduction by Golden Harry . Washington : Public Affairs Press . Pp. vi , 150 . $3.25 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Book Reviews 561 not given Josephson s group adequate...

... . $2.50 . Local History: How to Gather It, Write It, and Publish It . By Parker Donald Dean . Revised and edited by Josephson Bertha E. for the Committee on Guide for Study of Local History of The Social Science Research Council . New York : Social Science Research Council , 1944...

..., Editor, and Doris Godard, Editorial Associate. Washington, D. C.: The Amer­ ican Association for State and Local History, 1944. Paper. Pp. xi, 261. $2.50. Local History: How to Gather It, Write It, and Publish It. By Donald Dean Parker. Revised and edited by Bertha E. Josephson for the Committee on Guide...

... History, 1944. Paper. Pp. xi, 261. $2.50. Local History: How to Gather It, Write It, and Publish It. By Donald Dean Parker. Revised and edited by Bertha E. Josephson for the Committee on Guide for Study of Local History of The Social Sci- ...

... of its own merit. 46 In 1963 he endeavored to refurbish the reputation of American capitalists, especially those of the late-nineteenth century whom his friend Matthew Josephson had branded as robber barons. The Enter­ prising Americans was a meticulous appraisal of American business­ men from colonial...

... Corey, John K. Winkler, Matthew Josephson, and others. The story was repeated and accepted by eminent book reviewers and critics and was given repeated circulation in the radical press; it was accepted by the literati, the Serious Thinkers, and appeared in the works of Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells...

... be an opportunist of shady ethics, and that although he was both generous and gregarious, he was also ostentatious and vainglorious. The fact that he died broke indicates the lack of good business judg­ ment outside of the world of steel. A good corrective to Matthew Josephson and other purveyors of the robber...

... a history of the Democratic party in the post-Civil War Midwest, treating the national and state organizations, personalities, movements, problems, and events, as well as certain broad features of American life. While it covers much of the same ground as John D. Hicks, The Populist Revolt, Matthew Josephson...

.... Hicks, The Populist Revolt, Matthew Josephson, The Politicos, 1865-1896, and C. M. Destler, American Radicalism 1865-1901, it differs in being formally a nar­ rative of party politics. Starting with a brief introductory chapter entitled A Thirty Years War and a chapter of background (1865-67...

..., and philosophy. 1 Much more important is the expansion in the scope of Mumford s books that coincides with this shift in subject matter.21 As Matthew Josephson observed in 1931, in a passage that may surprise readers who know Mumford only through his later work, his books through The Brown Decades were devoted...

...: An American Myth, a revision of Wachhorst s 1973 Stanford University dissertation. Unlike Matthew Josephson in his biography Edison( 1959), Wachhorst focuses on image rather than biographical fact. Edison as an image represents to Wachhorst a congeries of Jungian archetypes especially Prometheus the fire...

..., The American Spirit: A Study of the Idea of Civilization in the United States (1942; paperback ed., New York, 1962), p. 461; Beard, Five-Year Plan, pp. 3-4; Matthew Josephson, Infidel in the Temple: A Memoir of the Nineteen-Thirties (New York, 1967), p. 71. 366 The South Atlantic Quarterly but its...

... of life had displaced the need for enchantment to a new level. A number of theorists have challenged this view (McCarraher 2019 ; Josephson-Storm 2017 ). However, we still find much merit in such a description, especially as it helps us reflect on the cultural politics of the neoliberal age when each...

... the individual. Quantitative approaches have been especially useful to conser­ vatives intent upon reversing the unflattering Progressive and New Deal portraits of the entrepreneur, especially the business parasites pictured by Gustavus Myers and the robber barons of Matthew Josephson. While the debunkers had...

... to run one of the first magazines one dedicated to the religion of literature, Matthew Josephson says to print Hemingway s work. Poor Walsh, Pound wrote to Harriet Monroe in 1926, he had his merits and probably knew his time was short. Also in the midst of his farragos he occasionally said something...

...), Dubuisson (2003), Masuzawa (2005), and Josephson (2012). 10 “Christianity invented the distinction between religious and secular, and thus made religion. It made religion the problem—rather than itself. . . . The two terms, religious and secular, are therefore not simply...

... or Josephson, both of whom are known to have perished in a state of mental illness, begin to show traces of their affliction? We know even less about the relationship between genius and alcohol. It is commonly held that art and alcohol are inseparably That Puzzling Man Utrillo 67 wedded as in the Greek myth...