Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011.
2. Burnham, James, 1905-1987.
3. Didion, Joan.
4. Draper, Theodore, 1912-2006.
5. Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
6. Herberg, Will.
7. Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989.
8. Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
9. Riesman, David, 1909-2002.
10. Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
11. Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Description

1. 5 linear feet (12 boxes)

Summary

1. John Patrick Diggins (1935-2009) was an intellectual historian, university professor, and the author of numerous publications, including Mussolini and Fascism; the view from America (1972), The American Left in the Twentieth Century (1973), The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority (1994), and Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom and the Making of History (2007). John Patrick Diggins (1935-2009) was an intellectual historian, university professor, and the author of numerous publications, including Mussolini and Fascism; the view from America (1972), The American Left in the Twentieth Century (1973), The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority (1994), and Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom and the Making of History (2007). His papers consist of correspondence, chiefly letters from colleagues and other readers of his work; project files relating to his published works; and teaching files containing correspondence, typed lecture notes, syllabi, examination questions, and research material used in classroom and public presentations.

Subject

1. History > Study and teaching > United States
2. University of California, Irvine Faculty
3. City University of New York > Graduate School and University Center > Faculty
4. College teachers > United States
5. Authors > United States
6. United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
7. San Francisco State College Faculty
8. Historians > United States > Correspondence

Call number

1. MssCol 18353

Access (note)

1. Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Source (note)

1. Gift of Elizabeth Harlan, April 2010;

Location of other archival materials (note)

1. Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Author

1. Diggins, John P.

Title

1. John P. Diggins papers, 1966-2008.

Restricted access

1. Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Location of other archival materials

1. John P. Diggins letters received, 1969-1989; Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Finding aids

1. Collection guide available online and in repository.

Source

1. Gift of Elizabeth Harlan, April 2010; 2010; MSS2010M08.

Connect to:

1. Collection guide

Occupation

1. Authors United States
2. College teachers United States
3. Historians United States

Added author

1. Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011.
2. Burnham, James, 1905-1987.
3. Didion, Joan.
4. Draper, Theodore, 1912-2006.
5. Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
6. Herberg, Will.
7. Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989.
8. Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
9. Riesman, David, 1909-2002.
10. Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
11. Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Research call number

1. MssCol 18353