The Letters of C. Vann Woodward, by C. Vann Woodward
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C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the twentieth century. He was also a very gifted and frequent writer of letters, from his earliest days as a young student in Arkansas and Georgia to his later days at Yale when he became one of the arbiters of American intellectual culture. For the first time, his sprightly, wry, sympathetic, and often funny letters are published, including those he wrote to figures as diverse as John Kennedy, David Riesman, Richard Hofstadter, and Robert Penn Warren. The letters shed new light not only on Woodward himself, but on what it meant to be an American radical and public intellectual, as well as on the complex politics and discourse of the historical profession and the anxious modulations of Southern culture.
The Letters of C. Vann Woodward, by C. Vann Woodward- Amazon Sales Rank: #1669799 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-09-24
- Released on: 2013-09-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review “These letters offer a colorful chronology of the events and associations, personal and professional, that made C. Vann Woodward a formative presence in Southern and American history.”—The Wall Street Journal (Wall Street Journal)‘Woodward was a consistently first-rate correspondent, and these letters offer an eloquent insight into the writing of history as an ongoing, collaborative project based around candid exchange.’—Tom F. Wright, Times Literary Supplement (Tom F. Wright Times Literary Supplement 2014-04-11)
About the Author Michael O’Brien is professor of American intellectual history at the University of Cambridge.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Pronouncements of a Famous Historian Unwilling to Allow his Personality to Emerge By Dr. Laurence Raw C. Vann Woodward (1908-99) was an American intellectual historian with a particular interest in Southern history. He spent the majority of his academic career at Johns Hopkins followed by a long stint at Yale. After achieving considerable success with his first major work on Georgia politician Tom Watson, he produced a series of books on race relations, the most celebrated of which was THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW (1955), which argued that segregation was not a "natural" state of society but a late development during the 1890s in the post-Reconstruction era. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for MARY CHESNUT'S CIVIL WAR, an edited version of Mary Chesnut's Civil War diary.Whether Woodward's influence extended much beyond academic circles is moot. Late on in his life he had a spat with Gore Vidal, who accused him of being one of those academics enjoying the privileges of his existence without actively engaging in the political realities of his time. Woodward was certainly interested in major issues such as racial equality, but the letters give little indication of any active involvement other than regular communicational exchanges with public figures such as Martin Luther King or Hillary Clinton.The letters are quite curious in terms of content. They reveal a lot about Woodward's incisive mind, as well as his capacity to analyze essays and books in exhaustive detail and offer constructive criticism as a result. On the other hand they tell us about Woodward as a person, other than his in-built reluctance to disclose his feelings in print. He lost his wife and son to cancer, but little reference is made to their passing, or to the effect that such tragedies might have had on his life. Nor do we learn much about the often difficult experiences of being a Southerner transplanted to the North. Woodward assumes a persona, of the sage pronouncing judgement on academic affairs as well as commenting on the political situation, but we do feel that he is very interested in active engagement; the kind of engagement that might put his comfortable living at risk.To be honest, many of the letters are interesting only insofar as they reveal the petty jealousies and/or rivalries of academia. Woodward is particularly hard on those colleagues that do not meet his high academic standards; nor does he allow for the fact that non-academics can make equally penetrating judgements on American history without the rigorous years of training experienced by most professors. As time goes by, he becomes increasingly skeptical of the ways in which the humanities are developing; he dislikes "theory" and oral history on the grounds that they do not seem sufficiently "academic." By the end of his life he had become rather cantankerous in his pronouncements, as if reluctant to move with changing times.Readers interested in the academic progress of American history in the mid-twentieth century might derive great benefit from this book, but to non-specialists it does seem somewhat parochial.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Woodward still relevant. By mitchell The problems in Ferguson reveal that the civil rights struggle continues. Read his Jim Crow book and the Origin of the New South.
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