S2 E2: The Virgin, the Dynamo, and Henry Adams with Professor David Brown
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Professor David Brown is the Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College. The following books and people are pertinent to this episode: Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography The Idea of the Two Party System The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It Everyman His Own Historian The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams The History of United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison The Education of Henry Adams Mont Saint Michel and Chartres The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma The Law of Civilization and Decay James Finley
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