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Links de William A. Link

Links

Autor William A. Link
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 feb 2012

Imaginați-vă un birou ticsit de manuscrise în Princeton, unde Arthur Link, cel mai important biograf al lui Woodrow Wilson, punea bazele istoriografiei politice americane, în timp ce Margaret Link coordona ministere de criză și asociații pentru sănătate mentală. Descoperim în Links nu doar cronica unei cariere academice prodigioase, ci și inima unei familii care a navigat prin transformările tumultuoase ale Sudului american. William A. Link reușește o performanță rară: aceea de a privi retrospectiv cu detașarea istoricului de profesie, dar și cu sensibilitatea fiului care a trăit în umbra acestor coloși.

Observăm cum autorul integrează natural corespondența privată și interviurile cu personalități precum George McGovern, oferind o perspectivă intimă asupra mediului universitar și politic de la mijlocul secolului trecut. Links se așază pe același raft cu A Life with History de John Morton Blum, dar cu un accent pe parteneriatul domestic și sprijinul reciproc care au făcut posibilă opera academică, dincolo de jocurile de putere din Ivy League. Față de lucrările sale anterioare, precum Southern Crucible: The Making of the American South sau biografia Frank Porter Graham, unde William A. Link analizează structurile mari de putere și identitate regională, aici focalizarea este mult mai strânsă, transformând istoria socială într-o geografie a afectelor.

Tonul este unul echilibrat, evitând nostalgia excesivă în favoarea unei analize lucide a modului în care viața privată și cea publică se întrepătrund. Este un portret evocator al unei epoci în care rigoarea intelectuală era dublată de un activism social profund, oferind cititorului o înțelegere nuanțată a modului în care se scrie istoria — atât cea din cărți, cât și cea trăită zi de zi.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813037943
ISBN-10: 0813037948
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 160 x 231 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University Press of Florida

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istoria ideilor și de biografiile care dezvăluie „omul din spatele operei”. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra mediului academic american și a Sudului în plină schimbare, totul printr-o narațiune caldă, dar riguroasă. Este un motiv concret pentru a înțelege cum relațiile personale și valorile morale pot influența cercetarea istorică de anvergură.

Despre autor

William A. Link este profesor de istorie la Universitatea din Florida, deținând catedra Richard J. Milbauer. Este un specialist recunoscut în istoria Sudului american, cu o operă vastă ce explorează teme precum sclavia, conservatorismul modern și reconstrucția postbelică. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără Roots of Secession și Righteous Warrior. În Links, el își folosește expertiza academică pentru a documenta moștenirea tatălui său, Arthur Link, celebrul istoric al lui Woodrow Wilson, demonstrând o capacitate remarcabilă de a îmbina biografia politică cu memoriile de familie.

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This unflinching portrait of the author s parents tells the story of two sensitive southerners during a time of transition in the South. Spanning three decades, the narrative fuses elements of race relations, family, and intellectual history. Many will be interested in William Link s personal and personalized examination of how a scholar of faith worked within the academic profession. This labor of love is also an extraordinary contribution to historical understanding of a historian s growth, the politics of history departments, and the development of an emergent history profession and its role in higher education. Orville Vernon Burton, author of "The Age of Lincoln" Bill Link s masterful, meticulous, and multi-faceted portrait of his extraordinary parents set their lives within the academic and social communities of Davidson, Chapel Hill, Northwestern, and especially Princeton. In this adept blend of biography and memoir, Link, a distinguished historian in his own right, has as much to say about marriage, parenting, and the bonds of family as he does about the scholarly world through which his father, Arthur Link one of the giants of 20th century political history strode for more than half a century. John C. Inscoe, author of "Writing the South through the Self" Combining the objectivity of the historian with the personal insights of a son, Bill Link has written an engaging account of his father, the eminent historian Arthur Link, and his mother, Margaret, a scholar in her own right and who with devotion and kindness raised a family of four children. Along the way we encounter Senators George McGovern and Bill Bradley, students of the elder Link, as well as his dear friend and colleague the iconic historian John Hope Franklin. Anyone interested in the American South, the history profession, the politics of higher education, and the triumphs and tragedies of a notable American family will want to read this book. Steven F. Lawson, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University
This frank and touching memoir combines an intimate family story with a sweeping saga of the upheavals that transformed both the post-World War II South and American intellectual life. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, University of North Carolina"

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Sometimes you "can "go home again
Combining the objectivity of the historian with the personal insights of a son, Bill Link has written an engaging account of his father, the eminent historian Arthur Link, and his mother, Margaret, a scholar in her own right and who with devotion and kindness raised a family of four children. Along the way we encounter Senators George McGovern and Bill Bradley, students of the elder Link, as well as his dear friend and colleague the iconic historian John Hope Franklin. Anyone interested in the American South, the history profession, the politics of higher education, and the triumphs and tragedies of a notable American family will want to read this book. Steven F. Lawson, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University "Links" is a beautifully evocative, richly detailed account of the personal histories and half-century-long partnership of Margaret and Arthur Link, two remarkable individuals who happen to be the parents of the highly accomplished, clear-eyed, deeply insightful author. Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Princeton University The story of two remarkable people and their journey through life, of how they formed a unique partnership, based on a deep love and mutual respect, that enabled Arthur Link to become one of the most productive and accomplished historians of his generation. Charles E. Neu, Brown UniversityArthur Link (1920 1998) was one of the great historians of his generation, a prolific author with a wide following inside and outside the profession. For many years the foremost authority on Woodrow Wilson, he wrote a five-volume biography of the president and edited a sixty-nine volume edition of Wilson s papers.
Margaret Link (1918 1996), his wife and fellow North Carolinian, was the emotional core of the family. As an activist, she helped form an interdenominational crisis ministry in Princeton that reached out to the poor with counseling, clothing, and food, and she was a cofounder and president of the Association for the Advancement of Mental Health.
In "Links," their youngest son an accomplished and award-winning historian offers a moving and unsentimental biography of two individuals who experienced the intense change and tumult of the South during the mid-twentieth century. Drawing from a rich trove of letters, interviews with friends and family, and unique insights, Link offers a highly detailed, evocative portrait of the coming of age and lifelong partnership of his parents. "Links "combines the objectivity and critical judgment of the professional historian with the subjectivity and deep emotional connection of the memoirist who participated directly in part of the story."