{"product_id":"beyond-truman-robert-h-ferrell-and-crafting-the-past-9781793627834","title":"Beyond Truman: Robert H. Ferrell and Crafting the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDouglas A. Dixon provides a fine and full portrait of historian Robert H. Ferrell, among the most distinguished interpreters of American diplomacy writing during the American century. More than a study of a man or a school, this study assays the political and intellectual changes of an entire profession in the decades that followed the great postwar boom. -- David Brown, Elizabethtown College\u003cbr\u003eThanks to this study, Robert H. Ferrell—arguably Indiana University’s best-known and best-loved professor of History—now figures into a historical narrative of his own. Douglas A. Dixon’s research portrays Ferrell—the scholar and the man—as something more than the “giant of diplomatic history” or the “Truman biographer,” presenting him, instead, as a distinct individual, both a product and a shaper of a fascinating period in American intellectual life. -- Eric Sandweiss, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I Three Vignettes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Midwest to Yale and World War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two:Two Lovers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II Beginnings and Scholar-Activist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: Ferrell in the Making\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: Dear Senator Taft: “Heads Ought to Roll”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III Distinctions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: Traditionalists, Debunkers, and Revisionism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: Then and Now","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042655830359,"sku":"9781793627834","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793627834.jpg?v=1750955043","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-truman-robert-h-ferrell-and-crafting-the-past-9781793627834","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}