Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment

By Leon Fink

Book Overview

How to lead the people and be one of them? What is a democratic intellectual to do? This longstanding dilemma for the progressive intellectual, how to bridge the world of educated opinion and that of the working masses, is the focus of Leon Fink's book, a social history of the progressive thinker caught in the middle of American political culture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674661605
• ISBN13: 9780674661608
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.8"