Another response from H-Ideas: *************************************************************************** Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 10:58:04 -0500 From: [log in to unmask] Agnes Miklos Illes writes: "I am looking for literature on American cultural history (sociology, philosophy, economics etc.) of the period about 1920 - 1960." I'd like some, too, and I'm distressed at how little has been written about the intellectual history of this period that tries to be comprehensive. I have a cultural history of the 70s, Peter Carroll, *It Seemed Like Nothing Happened*, NY: Holt, 1982, but that's after the period and like other, similar works, seems to me to be lacking in comparative perspectives and not fully informed of what was going on among academic, as opposed to more public, thinkers. I would hasten to recommend Paul Dickson's *Think Tanks*, NY: Ballantine paperback, 1971, a fine piece of journalism now hard to use because its original publication was in paperback. It does a superb job of describing the intellectual atmosphere and activity at these 50s and 60s non-universities called "think tanks" both the ones on the left (as they believed) and those on the right (pre-Pat Robertson). John Diggins's new history of US social thought through the lens of pragmatism (*The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority*, Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1994) is very fine, I think, but I feel ignorant. What do others know? Must we fall back on Stow Persons or Eric Goldman? -Bill Everdell, Brooklyn