The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief

by George M. Marsden

Book Overview

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular, liberal elites for guidance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465030106
• ISBN13: 9780465030101
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.4"