Stephen Cox:The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America
- Erstausgabe 2004, ISBN: 0765802414
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[EAN: 9780765802415], Near Fine, [PU: Transaction Publishers], US USA UNITED STATES AMERICA AMERICAN FEMALE FRONTIER INDIVIDUALISM DYNAMO CREATIVITY ENGINEERING METAPHORS CONSTITUTIONALIS… Mehr…
[EAN: 9780765802415], Near Fine, [PU: Transaction Publishers], US USA UNITED STATES AMERICA AMERICAN FEMALE FRONTIER INDIVIDUALISM DYNAMO CREATIVITY ENGINEERING METAPHORS CONSTITUTIONALISM FEDERALISM HUMANITARIANISM ALTRUISM THEISM DEISM SPONTANEITY ANARCHISM NATIVISM PROTECTIONISM PACIFISM INTERVENTIONISM CENSORSHIP PROSTITUTION COLLECTIVISM PHILANTHROPY PRAGMATISM PROGRESSIVISM ROMANTICISM VITALISM ENERGY CIRCUITS TRANSMISSION LINES INDUCTION PROPERTY RIGHTS FEDERAL POWER LOCAL CONTROL STRUCTURALISM ARCHITECTURAL GENIUS MASS VETO FACTIONS SOVEREIGNTY REGIONALISM TERRITORIES SECESSION PREDATION BUNGLING STATUS GUILDS INNOVATION MARKET DYNAMISM SUBJECTIVE ACTOR UNIQUENESS DIVERSITY UNPREDICTABILITY STAGE MANAGEMENT CENTRAL AUTHORITY PLANNING CHAOS LIBERTY DEATH ENTANGLEMENTS PROHIBITION INFLATION REGULATIONS MORAL LEGISLATION CONSCRIPTION BELLIGERENCE SOVIET TRUSTEESHIP ATOMIZATION DISARMAMENT CONDITIONALITY DISSENT QUESTIONING NATIONAL EMERGENCY ICONOCLASM APHORISMS SARCASM UNDERSTATEMENT PACIFISTS ISOLATIONISM NATIONALISM XENOPHOBIA STATISM LIFE WORK INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS RADICAL UNIQUE THEORY HISTORY ECONOMY INFLUENCE LIBERTARIAN THOUGHT CONTEXTUAL SIGNIFICANCE BIOGRAPHY UNDERSTANDING IDEAS KIRK READ NOCK ROTHBARD STALIN EDISON STEIN WILLKIE SHERMAN TRIBUNE FREEMAN FOUNTAINHEAD DISCOVERY FREEDOM BIBLE FOREMOTHER ACERBIC HUMANITARIAN GUILLOTINE DEIST INDUCTOR FLOW AXIOM CONTRACTS SLAVERY FUGITIVE CLAUSE LEVIATHAN PHILANTHROPISTS BENEVOLENCE SURPLUS SEXISM GENDER UTOPIA CANONS TENETS RESURRECTION JOURNALIST 20TH CENTURY, Jacket, Cloth hardcover, x + 418pp + 6 pages of b&w photos, NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear only. Book is clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Bright untorn dust jacket. -- -- This biography reconstructs the life and thought of Isabel Paterson - novelist, cultural critic, and political theorist - a foundational figure of the modern American Right. Drawing on private papers and her extensive published work, it traces her path from a frontier upbringing with minimal formal education to a central role in New York's literary scene as the author of the witty and influential "Turns with a Book Worm" column. The narrative details her intellectual evolution, from an advocate of "classical American" principles who initially voted for FDR to end Prohibition, to a fierce opponent of the New Deal, which she equated with fascism. Her thoroughgoing libertarianism extended beyond economics to opposing censorship, moral legislation, and wartime conscription. A significant portion analyzes Paterson's 1943 magnum opus, The God of the Machine, explaining its central metaphor of society as an energy circuit powered by the individual mind. In this framework, private property and sound money are transmission lines, while government intervention creates damaging short circuits - a theory of spontaneous order rather than mechanistic determinism. The book explores her complex role as a mentor to a young Ayn Rand and her place alongside Rose Wilder Lane as one of the three women whose major works in 1943 defined a new pro-liberty movement. It examines her eventual falling out with Rand, her influence on later figures like William F. Buckley, and her final years of relative isolation. Ultimately, the work positions Paterson as a key intellectual architect of libertarian and conservative thought, illuminating the crucial role women played in its development., Books<
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Novelist, columnist, cultural critic, political theorist— Isabel Paterson was one of the most extraordinary personalities of the 1930s, renowned for her incisive wit and her unique i… Mehr…
Novelist, columnist, cultural critic, political theorist— Isabel Paterson was one of the most extraordinary personalities of the 1930s, renowned for her incisive wit and her unique interpretation of the American experience. The Woman and the Dynamo is the first biography of a woman who has long been a source of rumor and legend. From interviews, private papers, and her millions of published words, Stephen Cox weaves a narrative that brings Paterson vividly to life.A radical individualist in both theory and practice, Paterson spent her early life on the Western frontier, lavished two years on formal education, set a record for high-altitude flight, became a journalist by accident, and made herself a fearless chronicler and conscience of New York literary life. At the same time, she made a permanent contribution to American political thought.Paterson identified the fundamental issues at stake in the crises of the twentieth century and responded with an original theory of history and political economy. In her view, the individual mind is the dynamo of history, working through the long circuit of institutions that maintain and enhance individual liberty; and America is the place where the advanced forms of those institutions were invented and are currently undergoing their severest trial. While other intellectuals derided the American ideal of progress and called for the restraint or abolition of the capitalist system, Paterson demanded a scrupulous application of the engineering principles on which American civilization had been built.The Woman and the Dynamo provides one of the few broad and detailed accounts of the origins of the American political Right, emphasizing the special role that women and imaginative writers played in its creation, and posing new questions about what it means to be left or right, liberal or conservative in America. This will be compelling reading for those interested in twentieth century intellectual history, literature, and politics. Trade Books>Hardcover>Biography>Biography Other>Biography Other, Transaction Publishers Core >2<
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Stephen Cox:WOMAN & THE DYNAMO
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