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Florida: From Tourism to Troubles by Whitfield, Stephen J

“…Among the fifty states of the American republic, only a very few can project a mystique, a special mythic spirit. From the middle of the nineteenth century,…”
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The Pentagon Papers as History by Whitfield, Stephen J

“…This article examines the most consequential Constitutional case in American history regarding the right of the press to expose the origins of a war – while it…”
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A Poet Illumines the Pandemic by Whitfield, Stephen J

“…In homage to Dr. Denis Mukwege A Poet Illumines the Pandemic           The title of W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” might seem to require that this poem be…”
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Whatever Happened to Henri Bergson? by Whitfield, Stephen J

“…In the early decades of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson (1859–1941) ranked among the world’s most eminent philosophers. His distinction between clock-time…”
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Masculinity in the Movies of David Mamet by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…No American playwright-scenarist-director has been so consistently obsessed with the meaning of masculinity than David Mamet. No writer of his stature has…”
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The Persistence of the Protocols by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…The fear of a secret Jewish conspiracy that dominates and manipulates the political economy began not long after the Emancipation from the ghettos, and was…”
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In Praise of The American Political Tradition by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…No book is more exemplary in identifying the continuity of democratic statesmanship in the United States than Richard Hofstadter's second book. Its scope is…”
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A crime without punishment by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…A review essay covering a book by Timothy B. Tyson, The Blood of Emmett Till (2017)…”
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On Thomson's Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…The careers and roles of stars like James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Olivia de Havilland—all the way to Clint Eastwood—pique the author’s…”
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Alfred Kazin and the Holocaust by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…The reputation of Alfred Kazin is based primarily on his criticism of American literature. But his intense Jewish consciousness was self-evident, and that…”
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FORTUNE MAGAZINE FIGHTS ANTISEMITISM by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…The sense that Jews have constituted an alien element in the body politic, and that they have exerted an unwarranted influence in economic affairs and in the…”
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Modernity and the 'Spirit of the Jews' by Whitfield, Stephen J.

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Northern intellectuals and the ordeal of race: the first decade of Dissent, 1954-64 by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…Founded in 1953-4, Dissent assigned itself the task of reviving the political criticism that socialism had been articulating for roughly the previous century…”
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A Radical in Academe: Herbert Marcuse at Brandeis University by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…Whifield examines the remarkably wide countercultural influence of Herbert Marcuse at Brandeis University. Marcuse was without doubt among the most influential…”
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Necrology: Mark Shechner (1940–2015) by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…In the decades immediately after the Second World War, three writers rose to such prominence (and found themselves pelted so often with National Book Awards…”
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On Sutak’s Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939–1949 by Whitfield, Stephen J

“…Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939–1949. By Ken Sutak. New York: Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion Museum/CCAR Press, 2012. 106 pp., ISBN…”
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The theme of indivisibility in the post-war struggle against prejudice in the United States by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…Whitfield's essay seeks to identify and explain a tendency that emerged in the United States in the 1940s and extended through the 1950s. It was then that a…”
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Prophesying War: How Convincing is The Power Elite? by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…No sociological study of the exercise of American power has matched the provocative influence of The Power Elite (1956), which was published when radical…”
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Lewis S. Feuer: The Scholar as Intellectual by Whitfield, Stephen J.

“…The career of Lewis S. Feuer spanned several disciplines—Philosophy, Sociology, Politics, and History (especially the History of Ideas); his books and articles…”
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Out of Anarchism and Into the Academy: The Many Lives of Frank Tannenbaum by Whitfield, Stephen J

“…The New York winter and early spring of 1913-1914 was a severe one, with unusually biting temperatures adding to the suffering of the unemployed, who numbered…”
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