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| Preface | ||
| Introduction: Bill Towner | ||
| 1 | "A Fondness for Freedom": Servant Protest in Puritan Society | 3 |
| 2 | The Sewall-Saffin Dialogue on Slavery | 22 |
| 3 | The Indentures of Boston's Poor Apprentices, 1734-1805 | 36 |
| 4 | The Confessions and Dying Warnings in Colonial New England | 56 |
| 5 | Ars Poetica Et Sculptura: Pocahontas on the Boston Common | 82 |
| 6 | Pocahontas on the Boston Common, Revisited | 86 |
| 7 | The Mapping of the American Revolutionary War in the Nineteenth Century | 89 |
| 8 | American Studies Today - The Middle of a Revolution (1969) | 112 |
| 9 | Past Imperfect: The Uses of a Research Library | 125 |
| 10 | A History of the Newberry Library | 137 |
| 11 | A Plan for the Newberry Library (1971) | 148 |
| 12 | Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud: The Recent Shaping of the Newberry Library's Collections | 170 |
| 13 | "Wrecking" Havoc: Conservation at the Newberry | 183 |
| 14 | The Art of the Antiquarian Book Dealer | 190 |
| 15 | Genealogy at the Newberry: The Service That Came in out of the Cold | 193 |
| 16 | An End to Innocence | 202 |
| 17 | An Exciting and Incredibly Rewarding Twenty Years | 210 |
| 18 | Ray Allen Billington | 217 |
| 19 | Clifford Kenyon Shipton | 224 |
| 20 | Lester Jesse Cappon | 229 |
| 21 | Hermon Dunlap Smith | 232 |
| 22 | D'Arcy McNickle | 236 |
| 23 | Everett Dwight Graff | 240 |
| 24 | Some of My Best Friends Used to Be University Press Directors | 245 |
| 25 | Independent Research Libraries: "Truly National Libraries" | 253 |
| 26 | On "Pure Scholarship" And "Public Programs" | 260 |
| 27 | "What Are Our National Priorities, Anyhow?": In Defense of the National Endowment for the Humanities | 264 |
| 28 | Turning Problems into Opportunities: An Agenda for the Humanities | 270 |
| Published Writings of Lawrence W. Towner | 275 | |
| Index | 283 |
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Shannon Keen
reviewed Past imperfect on May 13, 2013
Past imperfect
Degler plots a largely sociological arc of American development seeing an at times painful but 'progressively' growing approach to an inclusive, guarantor society underpinned by by an unbreakable union of states offering ciitzen equality (settled by the Civil War after the spineless federal government that arose from the American Revolution) and an overt socialism that arose from the Great Depression. For instance, where it is not unusual for a book on American history to underscore how financial panics are cyclical, this book explores how anit-immigrant fervor is has also risen and fallen periodically. Degler looks back to a socialist Thirties and post-WWI unionism and prosperity from The Fifties see a future of a stronger central government offer more assurances.
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