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American Culture since the Sixties
Josephson, Matthew | December 3, 1930 issue

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The article throws light on the last works of Vernon Parrington, a lecturer. Parrington had the gift of epithet: the period that followed the Civil War, for instance, he epitomized as "the collision between a shambling democracy and an ambitious industrialism ;" or it was the "buccaneering orgy" of the frontier spirit, a world of "triumphant and unabashed vulgarity. Parrington's major theme is the industrialization of the States after the Civil War "under the leadership of the middle class," and the rise of a critical attitude toward the ideals and handiwork of that class. The slogan of those stirring times of fifty and sixty years ago always included the essential ideas of preemption, exploitation, progress.

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CIVIL war; PARRINGTON, Vernon Louis, 1871-1929; MIDDLE class; POLITICAL doctrines; SOCIAL classes; INDUSTRIALIZATION
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