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Barnhisel Greg - Code Name Puritan Norman Holmes Pearson At The Nexus Of Poetry Espionage And American Power - Hardcover
Barnhisel Greg - Code Name Puritan Norman Holmes Pearson At The Nexus Of Poetry Espionage And American Power - Hardcover
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Description: An insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholar and spy who transformed postwar American culture. Although his impact on twentieth - century American cultural life was profound few people know the story of Norman Holmes Pearson. Pearson's life embodied the Cold War alliances among US artists scholars and the national - security state that coalesced after World War II. As a Yale professor and editor he helped legitimize the study of American culture and shaped the public's understanding of literary modernism significantly the work of women poets such as Hilda Doolittle and Gertrude Stein. At the same time as a spy recruiter and cultural diplomat he connected the academy the State Department and even the CI a. In Code Name Puritan Greg Barnhisel maps Pearson's life from his childhood injury that led to a visible permanent disability to his wartime counterespionage work neutralizing the Nazis spy network to his powerful role in the cultural and political heyday sometimes called the American Century. Written with clarity and informed by meticulous research Barnhisel's revelatory portrait of Pearson details how his unique experiences shaped his beliefs about the American character from the Puritans onward.
Title: Code Name Puritan Norman Holmes Pearson At The Nexus Of Poetry Espionage And American Power
Author(s): Barnhisel Greg
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226647203
Pages: 392 Pages, 15 Halftones
Publication Date: 10/9/2024
Category: Biography: General
Description: An insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholar and spy who transformed postwar American culture. Although his impact on twentieth - century American cultural life was profound few people know the story of Norman Holmes Pearson. Pearson's life embodied the Cold War alliances among US artists scholars and the national - security state that coalesced after World War II. As a Yale professor and editor he helped legitimize the study of American culture and shaped the public's understanding of literary modernism significantly the work of women poets such as Hilda Doolittle and Gertrude Stein. At the same time as a spy recruiter and cultural diplomat he connected the academy the State Department and even the CI a. In Code Name Puritan Greg Barnhisel maps Pearson's life from his childhood injury that led to a visible permanent disability to his wartime counterespionage work neutralizing the Nazis spy network to his powerful role in the cultural and political heyday sometimes called the American Century. Written with clarity and informed by meticulous research Barnhisel's revelatory portrait of Pearson details how his unique experiences shaped his beliefs about the American character from the Puritans onward.
Title: Code Name Puritan Norman Holmes Pearson At The Nexus Of Poetry Espionage And American Power
Author(s): Barnhisel Greg
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226647203
Pages: 392 Pages, 15 Halftones
Publication Date: 10/9/2024
Category: Biography: General
