S2 E2: The Virgin, the Dynamo, and Henry Adams with Professor David Brown
Description
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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