Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

12/1/1972 - 8/31/1973

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)


Paths of Conservatism: An Odyssey of the Old Left in America

FAIN: FB-11417-72

Regents of the University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92617-3066)
John P. Diggins (Project Director: December 1972 to present)

A study to interpret three interrelated phenomena in 20th century American intellectual and cultural history; radicalism, conservatism, and a generational rebellion. Study will treat of the pattern of the youth revolts in 20th century American history; and the transformation of the radicalism of the 1930s into the conservatism of the 1950s. A book will be the result of this study.