The Intellectual, the Professional, and the Problem of Democracy in America

FAIN: FB-11339-72

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Chicago, IL 60612-4305)
Burton J. Bledstein (Project Director: September 1972 to present)

To complete a manuscript entitled, The Intellectual, the Professional, and the Problem of Democracy in America: Tocqueville, Emerson, F.J. Turner, and the New Middle Class, 1840-1920. Manuscript would be useful to the historian of American social thought, concerned with anchoring both ideological pronouncements and cultural self-images to a social-historical setting.