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S2 E2: The Virgin, the Dynamo, and Henry Adams with Professor David Brown

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Show Notes

Professor David Brown is the Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College. The following books and people are pertinent to this episode:

Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography

The Idea of the Two Party System

The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It

Everyman His Own Historian

The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams

The History of United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

The Education of Henry Adams

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres

The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma

The Law of Civilization and Decay

James Finley

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