John Patrick Diggins

John Patrick Diggins is a distinguished professor of history at the CUNY Graduate Center, the author of more than a dozen books on widely variant subjects in American intellectual history, and one of the leading scholars in his field.

Biography

John Patrick Diggins earned his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, and taught at San Francisco State College and the University of California, Irvine before taking his appointment in New York.

Bibliography

* (2008) "Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy"
* (2008) "Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History"
* (2004) "The Portable John Adams" (editor)
* (2003) "John Adams: The American Presidents Series"
* (2000) "On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History"
* (1997) "The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and the Challenge of the American Past" (co-editor)
* (1996) "Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy"
* (1994) "The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority"
* (1988) "The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960"
* (1984) "The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism"
* (1981) "The Problem of Authority in American" (co-editor)
* (1978) "The Bard of Savagery: Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory"
* (1976) "Up From Communism: Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual History"
* (1973) "The American Left in the Twentieth Century" (reworked into "The Rise and Fall of the American Left", 1992)
* (1972) "Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America"

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