Glenn C. Altschuler's Books

Rude Republic

Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Stuart M. Blumin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rude Republic

Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Stuart M. Blumin

What did politics and public affairs mean to those generations of Americans who first experienced democratic self-rule? Taking their cue from vibrant political campaigns and very high voter turnouts, historians have depicted the nineteenth century as an era of intense and widespread political enthusiasm. But rarely have these historians examined popular political engagement directly, or within the broader contexts of day-to-day life. In this bold and in-depth look at Americans and their politics, Glenn Altschuler and Stuart Blumin argue for a more complex understanding of the "space" occupied by politics in nineteenth-century American society and culture. Mining such sources as diaries, letters, autobiographies, novels, cartoons, contested-election voter testimony to state legislative committees, and the partisan newspapers of representative American communities ranging from Massachusetts and Georgia to Texas and California, the authors explore a wide range of political actions and attitudes. They consider the enthusiastic commitment celebrated by historians together with various forms of skepticism, conflicted engagement, detachment, and hostility that rarely have been recognized as part of the American political landscape. Rude Republic sets the political parties and their noisy and attractive campaign spectacles, as well as the massive turnout of voters on election day, within the communal social structure and calendar, the local human landscape of farms, roads, and county towns, and the organizational capacities of emerging nineteenth-century institutions. Political action and engagement are set, too, within the tide of events: the construction of the mass-based party system, the gathering crisis over slavery and disunion, and the gradual expansion of government (and of cities) in the post-Civil War era. By placing the question of popular engagement within these broader social, cultural, and historical contexts, the authors bring new understanding to the complex trajectory of American democracy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

331

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1400823617

ISBN 13

9781400823611

All Shook Up

How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America

By: Glenn C. Altschuler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

All Shook Up

How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America

By: Glenn C. Altschuler

The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race. For instance, the birth of rock coincided with the Civil Rights movement and brought "race music" into many white homes for the first time. Elvis freely credited blacks with originating the music he sang and some of the great early rockers were African American, most notably, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. In addition, rock celebrated romance and sex, rattled the reticent by pushing sexuality into the public arena, and mocked deferred gratification and the obsession with work of men in gray flannel suits. And it delighted in the separate world of the teenager and deepened the divide between the generations, helping teenagers differentiate themselves from others. Altschuler includes vivid biographical sketches of the great rock 'n rollers, including Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly--plus their white-bread doppelgangers such as Pat Boone. Rock 'n roll seemed to be everywhere during the decade, exhilarating, influential, and an outrage to those Americans intent on wishing away all forms of dissent and conflict. As vibrant as the music itself, All Shook Up reveals how rock 'n roll challenged and changed American culture and laid the foundation for the social upheaval of the sixties.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

241

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198031912

ISBN 13

9780198031918

The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn

An American Story

By: Stuart M. Blumin,Glenn C. Altschuler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn

An American Story

By: Stuart M. Blumin,Glenn C. Altschuler

Winner of the Herbert H. Lehman Prize by the New York Academy of History. In The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn, Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler detail how nineteenth-century Brooklyn was dominated by Puritan New England Protestants and how their control unraveled with the arrival of diverse groups in the twentieth century. Before becoming a hub of urban diversity, Brooklyn was a charming "town across the river" from Manhattan, known for its churches and suburban life. This changed with the city's growth, new secular institutions, and Coney Island's attractions, which clashed with post-Puritan values. Despite these changes, Yankee-Protestant dominance continued until the influx of Southern and Eastern European immigrants. The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn explores how these new residents built a vibrant ethnic mosaic, laying the foundation for cultural pluralism and embedding it in the American Creed.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

295

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501765523

ISBN 13

9781501765520

Cornell

A History, 1940–2015

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Isaac Kramnick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cornell

A History, 1940–2015

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Isaac Kramnick

In their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the modern research university. The book examines Cornell during the Cold War, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, antiapartheid protests, the ups and downs of varsity athletics, the women's movement, the opening of relations with China, and the creation of Cornell NYC Tech. It relates profound, fascinating, and little-known incidents involving the faculty, administration, and student life, connecting them to the "Cornell idea" of freedom and responsibility. The authors had access to all existing papers of the presidents of Cornell, which deeply informs their respectful but unvarnished portrait of the university. Institutions, like individuals, develop narratives about themselves. Cornell constructed its sense of self, of how it was special and different, on the eve of World War II, when America defended democracy from fascist dictatorship. Cornell’s fifth president, Edmund Ezra Day, and Carl Becker, its preeminent historian, discerned what they called a Cornell "soul," a Cornell "character," a Cornell "personality," a Cornell "tradition"—and they called it "freedom." "The Cornell idea" was tested and contested in Cornell’s second seventy-five years. Cornellians used the ideals of freedom and responsibility as weapons for change—and justifications for retaining the status quo; to protect academic freedom—and to rein in radical professors; to end in loco parentis and parietal rules, to preempt panty raids, pornography, and pot parties, and to reintroduce regulations to protect and promote the physical and emotional well-being of students; to add nanofabrication, entrepreneurship, and genomics to the curriculum—and to require language courses, freshmen writing, and physical education. In the name of freedom (and responsibility), black students occupied Willard Straight Hall, the anti–Vietnam War SDS took over the Engineering Library, proponents of divestment from South Africa built campus shantytowns, and Latinos seized Day Hall. In the name of responsibility (and freedom), the university reclaimed them. The history of Cornell since World War II, Altschuler and Kramnick believe, is in large part a set of variations on the narrative of freedom and its partner, responsibility, the obligation to others and to one’s self to do what is right and useful, with a principled commitment to the Cornell community—and to the world outside the Eddy Street gate.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

446

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801471885

ISBN 13

9780801471889

Andrew D. White

Educator, Historian, Diplomat

By: Glenn C. Altschuler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Andrew D. White

Educator, Historian, Diplomat

By: Glenn C. Altschuler

This is the first full-length biography of Andrew D. White, prominent historian, Republican politician, diplomat, and the first president of Cornell University. A fully rounded portrait, it follows White's career from his youth in Syracuse to his death, at the age of eighty-five, in Ithaca.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501744984

ISBN 13

9781501744983

Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned-over District

The Trial of Rhoda Bement

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Jan M. Saltzgaber

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned-over District

The Trial of Rhoda Bement

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Jan M. Saltzgaber

The transcript of a disciplinary trial that took place at the First Presbyterian Church in Seneca Fall, New York, in 1843, over Rhonda Bement's challenge to her church's stance on abolitionism.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

184

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801492467

ISBN 13

9780801492464

Changing Channels

America in TV Guide

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,David I. Grossvogel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Changing Channels

America in TV Guide

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,David I. Grossvogel

With weekly sales of 20 million copies TV Guide has had the largest circulation of any magazine in the U.S. and has dealt for decades with contemporary social and political issues. Here is a star-studded tour of television history that also chronicle's the publication's more recent moves under the ownership of Rupert Murdoch. Photographs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

240

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

025201779X

ISBN 13

9780252017797

The GI Bill

The New Deal for Veterans

By: Glenn Altschuler,Stuart Blumin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The GI Bill

The New Deal for Veterans

By: Glenn Altschuler,Stuart Blumin

On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor. The Marshall Plan comes to mind, as does the Civil Rights Act. But perhaps none resonates in the American imagination like the G.I. Bill. In a brilliant addition to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series, historians Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin offer a compelling and often surprising account of the G.I. Bill and its sweeping and decisive impact on American life. Formally known as the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, it was far from an obvious, straightforward piece of legislation, but resulted from tense political maneuvering and complex negotiations. As Altschuler and Blumin show, an unlikely coalition emerged to shape and pass the bill, bringing together both New Deal Democrats and conservatives who had vehemently opposed Roosevelt's social-welfare agenda. For the first time in American history returning soldiers were not only supported, but enabled to pursue success--a revolution in America's policy towards its veterans. Once enacted, the G.I. Bill had far-reaching consequences. By providing job training, unemployment compensation, housing loans, and tuition assistance, it allowed millions of Americans to fulfill long-held dreams of social mobility, reshaping the national landscape. The huge influx of veterans and federal money transformed the modern university and the surge in single home ownership vastly expanded America's suburbs. Perhaps most important, as Peter Drucker noted, the G.I. Bill "signaled the shift to the knowledge society." The authors highlight unusual or unexpected features of the law--its color blindness, the frankly sexist thinking behind it, and its consequent influence on race and gender relations. Not least important, Altschuler and Blumin illuminate its role in individual lives whose stories they weave into this thoughtful account. Written with insight and narrative verve by two leading historians, The G.I. Bill makes a major contribution to the scholarship of postwar America.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

261

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199720428

ISBN 13

9780199720422

Andrew D. White

Educator, Historian, Diplomat

By: Glenn C. Altschuler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Andrew D. White

Educator, Historian, Diplomat

By: Glenn C. Altschuler

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501744984

ISBN 13

9781501744983

The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn

An American Story

By: Stuart M. Blumin,Glenn C. Altschuler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn

An American Story

By: Stuart M. Blumin,Glenn C. Altschuler

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

295

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501765523

ISBN 13

9781501765520

Cornell

A History, 1940–2015

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Isaac Kramnick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cornell

A History, 1940–2015

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Isaac Kramnick

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

446

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801471885

ISBN 13

9780801471889

The GI Bill

The New Deal for Veterans

By: Glenn Altschuler,Stuart Blumin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The GI Bill

The New Deal for Veterans

By: Glenn Altschuler,Stuart Blumin

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

261

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199839999

ISBN 13

9780199839995

Ten Great American Trials

Lessons in Advocacy

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Faust F. Rossi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ten Great American Trials

Lessons in Advocacy

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Faust F. Rossi

Embedded in each of the narratives is an analysis of the use by prosecutors and defense attorneys of trial advocacy techniques (involving discovery, pre-trial motions, jury selection, direct testimony, cross-examination, the introduction of forensic exhibits, and summations) to craft compelling stories about what happened. Also assess the impact of cultural, social, and political values on the proceedings and the outcomes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

402

Published Date

ISBN 10

1634255925

ISBN 13

9781634255929

Talking It Over

By: Glenn Ford

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Talking It Over

By: Glenn Ford

Talking It Over" is the title of Glenn Ford's book. The book is subtitled "Preachers don't tell you...Politicians can't afford to." Glenn Ford addresses many issues that are not covered by our leaders today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Published Date

ISBN 10

1635756081

ISBN 13

9781635756081

Book's by Glenn C. Altschuler

Rude Republic

Rude Republic

All Shook Up

All Shook Up

The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn

The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn

Cornell

Cornell

Andrew D. White

Andrew D. White

Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned-over District

Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned-over District

Changing Channels

Changing Channels

The GI Bill

The GI Bill

Andrew D. White

Andrew D. White

The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn

The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn

Cornell

Cornell

The GI Bill

The GI Bill

Ten Great American Trials

Ten Great American Trials

Talking It Over

Talking It Over

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email