Christopher Lasch

New Radicalism in America

The Intellectual as a Social Type

"Extraordinarily creative . . . an important and engrossing contribution to a complex and elusive subject."—Newsweek

Around the turn of the century, the American liberal tradition made a major shift away from politics. The new radicals were more interested in the reform of education, culture, and sexual mores. Through vivid biographies, Christopher Lasch chronicles these social reformers from Jane Addams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Lincoln Steffens to Norman Mailer and Dwight MacDonald.

Christopher Lasch was professor of history at the University of Rochester. He was one of our great contemporary social thinkers. He died in 1994. Norton publishes his works The Culture of Narcissism, The Minimal Self, Haven in a Heartless World, The True and Only Heaven, and The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.

1997 / paperback / ISBN 0-393-31696-3 / 6" x 8" / 384 pages / History