Vanguards and Followers: Youth in the American Tradition - Hardcover

Filler, Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0882294598 ISBN 13: 9780882294599

Publisher: Burnham Inc Pub, 1979

Synopsis

Book by Filler, Louis

About this title

About the Author:

Louis Filler (1911-1998) was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Bristol and taught as a visiting professor in literature and history departments from the City University of New York to the University of California, San Francisco. His books include the classic Muckrakers, best-selling Crusade Against Slavery, Dictionary of American Social Reform, Unknown, Edwin Markham, Dictionary of American Conservatism, Vanguards and Followers, Distinguished Shades: Americans Whose Lives Live On,and Abolition and Social Justice in the Era of Reform, among many others, as well as biographies of Randolph Bourne and David Graham Phillips.

Review:

"Candid and humane, Louis Filler writes of the rising generation in America with historical perspective and moral imagination. There has been no previous book of this scope and penetration."

—Russell Kirk

"A solid, honest, historical study of the American 'youth tradition' that puts it in its proper perspective, assesses its past and future, and punctures a few balloons on the way."

—Russel B. Nye, Michigan State University

"[C]ontains fascinating cameos of people who have been on the cutting edge of movement and thought in history. Mr. Filler has the dynamic footage of history run by rapidly but with clarity and insight."

—Ray B. Browne, Bowling Green State University

"Filler's unique perspective forces readers to cut through popular (and often unexamined) media and academic premises to come to terms with their own feelings."

—David P. Thelen, editor, Journal of American History

About this edition

• Publisher: Burnham Inc Pub
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0882294598
• ISBN 13: 9780882294599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252