The Worlds of American Intellectual History by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: history, Historiography, United States, General
ISBN: 9780190459468
Google: ogk1DQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-11-15T00:31:00.391551+00:00

NOTES

1. Harold Bloom, Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (New York: Riverhead Books, 2004), 2.

2. Ibid., 1–2, 4.

3. Robert Nozick, “What Is Wisdom and Why Do Philosophers Love It So?” in The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations (New York: Touchstone, 1989), 276.

4. Vida Scudder, On Journey (New York: Dutton, 1937), 363, 17.

5. Lionel Trilling, “On the Teaching of Modern Literature” and “Why We Read Jane Austen,” in The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays, ed. Leon Wieseltier (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000), 385, 519.

6. Cornel West, “On My Intellectual Vocation,” in The Cornel West Reader (New York: Basic Books, 1999), 23, 19, 23.

7. There is precious little information about Wisdom from the limited financial and publication records publicly available. According to one commentator, it had a substantial subscriber base and “cachet,” but no “overt advertising,” and not enough underwriters: Oliver Pollak, “What Is Wisdom?” Jewish Press 83 (November 7, 2003): 21. Wisdom is listed in Ayer’s Directory of Newspapers and Periodicals from 1956 to 1962, though there are no circulation figures provided. More than two hundred American libraries currently hold at least one issue of Wisdom(the actual figure is anywhere from 219 to 239, though the 239 figure may be due to duplications of listing in WorldCat).

8. “Jewish Leaders Will Sponsor New Magazine,” Los Angeles Times, July 30, 1953, 20.

9. “Wisdom, New Picture Magazine in Debut,” Los Angeles Times, July 3, 1955, C6. A year earlier, Gutterman hired a former Warner Brothers publicity director to serve as Wisdom’s public relations representative. See “Movieland Briefs,” Los Angeles Times, May 31, 1954, B7.

10. “A Letter from the Publisher,” Wisdom 1 (March 1956): 2.

11. The format of the magazine changes in early 1959, when monthly issues start being excerpted from a single source.

12. Frederick Mayer was author of over seventy books on philosophy and education, including A History of Modern Philosophy (New York: American Book, 1951) and A History of American Thought: An Introduction (Dubuque, IA: William. C. Brown, 1951); Huntington Cairns, Allen Tate, and Mark Van Doren, eds., Invitation to Learning (New York: Random House, 1941). On the weekly CBS television show, see Robert Buffington, “Invitations to Learning,” Sewanee Review 119 (Spring 2011): 315–18.

13. On the radio and television broadcasting of book programs, see Joan Shelley Rubin, “Information, Please!” in The Making of Middlebrow Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 266–329; for an interesting study of French philosophers on television programs in midcentury France, see Tamara Chaplin, Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).

14. “A Letter from the Publisher,” Wisdom 1 (February 1956): 3; “A Letter from the Publisher,” Wisdom 2 (March 1958): 3; “A Letter from the Publisher,” Wisdom 2 (January 1957): 3.

15. “A Letter from the Publisher,” Wisdom 1 (September 1956): 18.

16. “Letters to the Editor,” Wisdom 1 (September 1956): 18.

17. Just a small sample from these historiographies includes Joseph Kett, The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties: From Self-Improvement to Adult Education in America, 1750-1990 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University

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