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- Publication Date
- 2024-10-09
- Pages
- 392
- ISBN
- 9780226647203
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022664720X
ISBN-13
9780226647203
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16065335095
Product Key Features
Book Title
Code Name Puritan : Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Political, Educators
Publication Year
2024
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-005599
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Barnhisel's smart treatment of this aspect of his subject provides a richer portrait than would otherwise be available, and his book overall will interest scholars of modern poetry, modern American literary studies, American studies, and the social history of elite institutions in the United States as the nation emerged into economic, military, and political dominance during and after the Second World War., Norman Pearson was a Yale professor, counterintelligence agent, and Cold Warrior who used literature and diplomacy to fight fascism and communism. Posing as a frail book collector while working for the early CIA, he forged relationships with William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, H.D., Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Muriel Rukeyser, Marianne Moore, and W. H. Auden as he helped build America's espionage agencies from the ground up. Pearson's covert work rendered his influence on American culture all but invisible. Now, Greg Barnhisel has rescued Pearson from history's shadows in this fascinating chronicle of a scholar, spy, and key architect of the American century., Barnhisel tells us . . . . 'Pearson became one of the most important academic figures in the collaboration between academia and the national-security state,' to the benefit of the latter. Code Name Puritan , scholarly and immensely thorough, will be the basis for all future work at that nexus., Charismatic Yale professor and OSS spymaster, Norman Holmes Pearson was so good a secret agent that he left few visible traces on his time. But he was a master of soft power, an 'odd man out who was deeply in,' and his fingerprints are everywhere: on the shaping of the modernist canon, the disciplinary origins of American Studies, and even the founding of the CIA. Greg Barnhisel's Code Name Puritan shows how it all worked, a finely detailed and provocative account of a life at the center of the American establishment., Despite the loving care he lavishes on Pearson in this engaging book, Mr. Barnhisel's subject plays something of a supporting role in his era, never quite becoming, as the author suggests, 'the emblematic figure of the truncated American Century.' Pearson remains a major minor figure. And that is probably how this old Puritan--and spook--would have wanted it., The Professor of Espionage came disguised as a genteel literary critic from Yale. Not only did Norman Holmes Pearson cultivate the modernist canon of English poetry for academia and the American public. He also tutored the founding generation of the CIA in the black arts of covert action, hob-nobbed with the barons of British intelligence, and midwifed the birth of a new academic discipline, American Studies. In Code Name Puritan , this most improbable and influential of Cold War scholar/spies comes to life as a man, a friend, and a historical force.
Dewey Decimal
810.9
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. Born a Puritan 2. Bright College Years 3. The Cream of American Intellectuality 4. Big Shots 5. Heady Society 6. The Puritan Goes to War 7. The Hot Property 8. Grampaw and the Commahunter 9. The Networker 10. An Intellectual Ménage à Trois 11. American Studies and the American Century 12. Odd Man In Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
An insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholar--and spy--who transformed postwar American culture. Although his impact on twentieth-century American cultural life was profound, few people know the story of Norman Holmes Pearson. Pearson's life embodied the Cold War alliances among US artists, scholars, and the national-security state that coalesced after World War II. As a Yale professor and editor, he helped legitimize the study of American culture and shaped the public's understanding of literary modernism--significantly, the work of women poets such as Hilda Doolittle and Gertrude Stein. At the same time, as a spy, recruiter, and cultural diplomat, he connected the academy, the State Department, and even the CIA. In Code Name Puritan , Greg Barnhisel maps Pearson's life, from his childhood injury that led to a visible, permanent disability to his wartime counterespionage work neutralizing the Nazis' spy network to his powerful role in the cultural and political heyday sometimes called the American Century. Written with clarity and informed by meticulous research, Barnhisel's revelatory portrait of Pearson details how his unique experiences shaped his beliefs about the American character, from the Puritans onward.
LC Classification Number
PS29.P43B37 2024
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