Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism

by Leslie J. Vaughn and Leslie J. Vaughan

In the "little rebellion" that swept New York's Greenwich Village before World War I, few figures stood out more than Randolph Bourne. Hunchbacked and caped--the "little sparrowlike man" of Dos Passos' U.S.A.--Bourne was an essayist and critic most remembered today for his opposition to U.S. military involvement in Europe and his assertion that "war is the health of the state." A frequent contributor to The New Republic, he died in 1918 at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700608214
• ISBN13: 9780700608218
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"