{"product_id":"the-disappearing-liberal-intellectual-hardcover","title":"The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Lott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat ever happened with that liberal intellectual \"boom\" of the 1980s and 1990s? In \u003ci\u003eThe Disappearing Liberal Intellectual\u003c\/i\u003e, Eric Lott -- author of the prizewinning \u003ci\u003eLove and Theft\u003c\/i\u003e -- shows that the charter members of the \"new left\" are suffering from a condition that he has dubbed \"boomeritis.\" Too secure in their university appointments, lecture tours, and book deals, the once rising stars of the liberal elite -- including Richard Rorty, Todd Gitlin, Michael Lind, Paul Berman, Greil Marcus, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- have drifted away from their radical moorings toward the political center. At once a chronicle of recent intellectual life and a polemic against contemporary liberalism's accommodations of the conservative status quo, \u003ci\u003eThe Disappearing Liberal Intellectual\u003c\/i\u003e eviscerates the complacency that has seeped into the politics of the would-be vanguard of American intellectual thought. Lott issues a wake-up call to the great public intellectuals of our day and challenges them to reinvigorate political debate on campus, in their writing, and on the airwaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Lott\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eLove and Theft: Blackface, Minstrelsy, and the American Working Class\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1994 Avery O. Craven Award from OAH, the first annual MLA Prize for a First Book, and the 1994 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. Lott's writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNation, Transition\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.54 x 6.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762054136096,"sku":"9780465041862","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6509abd4c032b8e12d5f08480cd08afa.webp?v=1780215894","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-disappearing-liberal-intellectual-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}