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Item Details
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BIOGRAPHY OF JANE ADDAMS
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| By: |
Jean Bethke Elshtain |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0465019129 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780465019120 |
| Publisher: |
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US |
| Pub. date: |
19 December, 2001 |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Description: |
Jane Addams (1860 - 1935) was a "public intellectual" and the first American women to win the Nobel Peace Prize. This text examines her life chronologically and thematically, exploring her embrace of "social feminism" and her challenge to the usual cleavage between "conservative" and "liberal". |
| Synopsis: |
This major new interpretive biography-by one of America's foremost public intellectuals-eloquently examines Jane Addams's cultural and political influence on her time and ours.. The founder of the famed Chicago institution Hull House and first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize has for too long been misunderstood as a mere "do-gooder," argues Jean Bethke Elshtain in this eagerly anticipated new interpretation of the life and work of Jane Addams. Like her biographer, Addams (1860-1935) was a quintessential "public intellectual." Under her hand, Hull House became a cultural and intellectual center, a place where beauty was served, where University of Chicago professors lectured and debate and discussion filled the auditorium.Elshtain examines Addams's life chronologically and thematically, exploring Addams's embrace of "social feminism" and her challenge to the usual cleavage between "conservative" and "liberal"-themes Elshtain brilliantly explores in her own writings. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy is a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations plan, portraits |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Basic Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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