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 The Age of Doubt American Thought and Culture in the 1940s
William Graebner
The trauma of war and cold war, the
shattering revelation of the murder of millions of European Jews, the discovery
of nuclear fission and the use of an atomic bomb on civilians at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, the Great Depression that threatened to return any day—these were the
events that held Americans in a decade-long state of anxiety. Never before had
progress seemed so fragile, history so harmful or so irrelevant, science so
lethal, aggregation of power so ominous, life so full of contingencies, human
relationships so tenuous, the self so frail, humankind so flawed. In this highly
regarded volume Graebner examines American culture from a variety of
perspectives, encompassing art, architecture, film, literature, music, dance,
pop culture, and political and scientific thought. His compelling and original
analysis recreates an era of anxiety and ambiguity in which Americans felt
pulled inward, toward the self, and outward, toward an all-encompassing
universalism, in their search for reassurance and stability. $14.95 list, 191 pages 10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-036-6 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-036-1 © 1991 “A splendid read, full of erudition.” —T. J. Knight, Choice
“. . . the reader delights in anticipating what Graebner will reel in next . . . a rich, bold, and clever work.” —Christine C. Kleinegger, American Quarterly
Table of Contents
Foreword (Lewis Perry) |