LEADER 03708nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910819675603321 005 20240417042044.0 010 $a0-7914-8566-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000226098 035 $a(OCoLC)62734405 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594902 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176787 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153814 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176787 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10209188 035 $a(PQKB)10265689 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408562 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6105 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408562 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10594902 035 $a(OCoLC)57566342 035 $a(DE-B1597)683956 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791485668 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000226098 100 $a20030321d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImmersed in great affairs$b[electronic resource] $eAllan Nevins and the heroic age of American history /$fGerald L. Fetner 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-5973-X 311 $a1-4175-7568-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Color and Light -- $tProgressive-Era Values and Influences (1890?1917) -- $tJournalism in its ?Higher Walks? (1913?31) -- $tCrossroads of American History (1913?27) -- $tBiography in the ?Victorian Manner? (1927?45) -- $tThe Temper of Modern Times (1929?39) -- $tCapitalism, Power, and the Historian (1934?40) -- $tAmerica, ?Projected into World Leadership? (1940?68) -- $tHistory, ?Broader, Deeper and More Mature? (1946?71) -- $tAfterword: A ?Public Enthusiasm for History? -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aImmersed in Great Affairs is the first book-length biography of noted historian and journalist Allan Nevins. In a career that spanned nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century, Nevins won two Pulitzer Prizes, helped draft John F. Kennedy's acceptance speech at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, composed the monumental eight-volume history of the American Civil War, Ordeal of the Union, and associated with, among others, Adlai Stevenson, Walter Lippmann, Arthur Schlesinger Sr., Charles Scribner, Abraham Flexner, and John D. Rockefeller Jr. This book traces his beginnings as a journalist in the early 1900s with the New York Evening Post and the New York World through his years as a contributor to the New York Times Magazine. Nevins not only influenced thoughtful, general readers through his articles, editorials, and reviews, but also made a lasting impression on the writing of American history and nurtured a whole generation of young scholars as DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. A narrative historian in an age of growing reliance on social science concepts and theories, Nevins remained committed to telling a story and to using history to teach moral lessons. 606 $aHistorians$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aJournalists$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xHistoriography 615 0$aHistorians 615 0$aJournalists 676 $a973/.07/202 676 $aB 700 $aFetner$b Gerald L$01719823 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819675603321 996 $aImmersed in great affairs$94117984 997 $aUNINA