Andrew Delbanco
American writer and professor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Andrew H. Delbanco is an American writer and professor. He is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University and the president of the Teagle Foundation. He is the author of many books, including The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War , which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for "books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity", and the Mark Lynton History Prize, sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard, for a work "of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression". Melville: His World and Work was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in biography. He has written numerous essays on American history and literature, a selection of which appeared in Required Reading: Why the American Classics Matter Now , as well as on U.S. higher education, in journals of culture and opinion, especially The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and The Nation.
Andrew Delbanco's Published Works
Published Works
- College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be (2014) (84)
- The Puritan Ordeal (1989) (65)
- Melville: His World and Work (2005) (58)
- The death of Satan : how Americans have lost the sense of evil (1996) (41)
- The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope (1999) (38)
- The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology (1987) (34)
- The Abolitionist Imagination (2012) (25)
- The Portable Abraham Lincoln (1992) (18)
- The Puritan Errand Re-Viewed (1984) (13)
- Writing New England: An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present (2001) (12)
- Scandals of Higher Education (2007) (9)
- New Essays on the Awakening: The Half-Life of Edna Pontellier (1988) (9)
- What Is College For (2012) (9)
- Looking Homeward, Going Home: The Lure of England for the Founders of New England (1986) (8)
- The Real American Dream (1999) (8)
- The Political Incorrectness of Zora Neale Hurston. (1997) (7)
- College at Risk. (2012) (6)
- William Ellery Channing: An Essay on the Liberal Spirit in America (1981) (6)
- Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now (1997) (5)
- The Death of Satan (1995) (4)
- American literature: a vanishing subject? (2006) (4)
- Life, Literature and the Pursuit of Happiness (1999) (4)
- It all comes down to the teachers (2002) (3)
- Melville in the '80s (1992) (3)
- The decline of discourse (1995) (3)
- A New Day for Intellectuals. (2009) (2)
- What Should PhD Mean? (2000) (2)
- New Essays on The Red Badge of Courage: The American Stephen Crane: The Context of The Red Badge of Courage (1986) (2)
- The Universities in Trouble. Translated from English by O. Shljahtina (2009) (1)
- The Sacred Game: Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630-1860 by Albert J. Von Frank (review) (2014) (1)
- The University Ideal vs. the Marketplace: Which Values Should Shape Our Financial Aid Policy?. (1997) (0)
- 5. Channing and Romanticism (1981) (0)
- The Plague That Changed Minds (1998) (0)
- THREE. From College to University (2015) (0)
- FOUR. Who Went? Who Goes? Who Pays? (2015) (0)
- 2. The Flight from History (1981) (0)
- SIX. What Is to Be Done (2015) (0)
- Contributors (1998) (0)
- Dreams of better schools. Translated from English (2010) (0)
- Introduction (2013) (0)
- Opening Plenary: "What is College For?" (2016) (0)
- Foundation President, Professor and "America's Best Social Critic" on Higher Ed and the State of Intellectual Life: A "NEJHE" Q&A with Andrew Delbanco. (2019) (0)
- ONE. What Is College For (2015) (0)
- Afterword to the New Paperback Edition (2015) (0)
- 6. THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST (2012) (0)
- Preface to the Paperback Edition (2015) (0)
- College (2023) (0)
- : Gender and the Writer's Imagination: From Cooper to Wharton. . Mary Suzanne Schriber . ; Language, Race, and Social Class in Howells's America. . Elsa Nettels . (1989) (0)
- FIVE. Brave New World (2015) (0)
- The angel of the battlefield (1994) (0)
- The Struggle of All Against All (2002) (0)
- The Circle of Eros: Sexuality in the Work of William Dean Howells by Elizabeth Stevens Prioleau, and: Critical Essays on W. D. Howells: 1866-1920 by Norma W. and Edwin H. Cady (review) (2014) (0)
- An American Reformation: A Documentary History of Unitarian Christianity@@@The Unitarians and the Universalists (1986) (0)
- 3. Language and the Neutrality of Scripture (1981) (0)
- Prologue: Family, Childhood, Youth (1981) (0)
- The Long Shadow of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address by Jared Peatman (review) (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2012) (0)
- William Ellery Channing (1981) (0)
- Foreword (2020) (0)
- 4. Slavery and the Problem of Evil (1981) (0)
- The Job and the Calling (2002) (0)
- Self-remade man (1997) (0)
- What's Happening in Our Colleges: Thoughts on the New Meritocracy (2012) (0)
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