American Public Life and the Historical Imagination

Wendy Gamber is associate professor of history at Indiana University. Michael Grossberg is professor of law and history at Indiana University and editor of American Historical Review. Hendrik Hartog is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law at Princeton University. Contributors: Frederick E. Hoxie, William J. Novak, James J. Connolly, Hendrik Hartog, J. Matthew Gallman, Wendy Gamber, Allon Gal, Beth LaDow, Charles W. Cheape, Michael Grossberg, Thomas R. Pegram, Raymond Arsenault, and Ellen Fitzpatrick.

"This book is a gem. In tribute to their inspiring teacher, Morton Keller, three fine American historians have brought together an exciting group of essays that share a commitment to a dynamic new organizing concept-'public life.' As historians' work increasingly crosses old field boundaries, integrating political and cultural history, legal and intellectual, to name only a few emerging hybrids, it is time to open up new conceptual borderlands. Gamber, Grossberg, and Hartog show us the way." -Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America "This is an important, well-written history of American public life . . . an excellent collection by authors who are known for their superb work." -Paul Finkelman, University of Tulsa College of Law "This splendid collection features fresh, first-rate scholarship by historians who are advancing new arguments, based on impressive research, concerning an important set of issues in American history." -James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University