Biography and Social History: an Intimate Relationship

Labour History

Volumn , Issue 87, 2004, Pages 187-192

  Salvatore, Nick ^a  

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EID: 61849133136     PISSN: 00236942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/27516005     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Nick Salvatore, Eugene V Debs: Citizen and Socialist, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1982.
2. Samuel P. Hayes, 'The Social Analysis of American Political History, 1880-1920', Political Science Quarterly, vol. LXXX, no. 3, September 1965, pp. 373, 376.
3. Jonathan M. Wiener, 'Radical Historians and the Crisis in American History, 1959-1980', Journal of American History, vol. 76, no. 2, September 1989, p. 399.1 have always had a complicated relationship with this approach, which I have discussed in greater detail in my article 'Herbert Gutman's Narrative of the American Working Class: a Reevaluation', International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 12, no. 1,1998, pp. 43-80.
4. For a brief overview of these critiques, see Eric Homberg and John Charmley (eds), The Troubled Face of Biography, Macmillan, New York, 1988, Introduction and passim. On Erickson, see Erik Erikson, Young Man Luther, Norton, New York, 1958, pp. 20-21.
5. Nick Salvatore, We All Got History: the Memory Books of Amos Webber, Times Books, New York, 1996; Nick Salvatore, Singing in a Strange Land: Reverend C.L. Franklin: the Black Church, and the Transformation of America, forthcoming, 2005.
6. Hannah Arendt, 'Truth and Polities', as quoted in Jean Bethke Elshtain, Real Politics: At the Center of Everyday Life, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997, p. 37.
7. Robert N. Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in a Time of Trial, Seabury Press, New York, 1975.
8. John T. McGreevy, Parish Boundaries: the Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996, p. 4.