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Beyond Truman
Robert H. Ferrell and Crafting the Past- Authors:
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- 2020
Summary
This study draws on the life of renowned historian, Robert H. Ferrell, to explore issues related to the history profession. Ferrell’s life story contextualizes postmodernism, the New Left, and the challenges of crafting history. The author analyzes Ferrell’s biases, examining distinctions between his morals and actions as well as his private and public life. This book provides crucial insight into the subjectivity of history, the boundaries of the discipline, and the effects of historians’ social lives on their work.
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- Copyright year
- 2020
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-7936-2781-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-7936-2782-7
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 164
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- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access
- Chapter 1 Midwest to Yale and World War No access
- Chapter 2 Two Lovers No access
- Chapter 3 Ferrell in the Making No access
- Chapter 4 Dear Senator Taft No access
- Chapter 5 Traditionalists, Debunkers, and Revisionism No access
- Chapter 6 Then and Now No access
- Appendix No access Pages 141 - 146
- Bibliography No access Pages 147 - 152
- Index No access Pages 153 - 162
- About the Author No access Pages 163 - 164





