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Bourne, Randolph Silliman
Born: 1886 AD
Died: 1918 AD, at 32 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Critics, Journalist
Died: 1918 AD, at 32 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Critics, Journalist
1886 - Born on May 30th in Bloomfield, New Jersey. American literary critic and essayist whose polemical articles made him a spokesman for the young radicals who came of age on the eve of World War I.
- He studied with John Dewey, got a traveling fellowship that took him to England Paris Rome Berlin Copenhagen, wrote a book on the Gary schools.
- He worked his way through Columbia working in a pianola record factory in Newark, working as proofreader and accompanist in a vocal studio in Carnegie Hall.
1913 - Bourne graduated from Columbia University.
- He went to work as a secretary to a Morristown businessman.
1918 - Died of Spanish flu on December 22nd in New York, New York.
- He studied with John Dewey, got a traveling fellowship that took him to England Paris Rome Berlin Copenhagen, wrote a book on the Gary schools.
- He worked his way through Columbia working in a pianola record factory in Newark, working as proofreader and accompanist in a vocal studio in Carnegie Hall.
1913 - Bourne graduated from Columbia University.
- He went to work as a secretary to a Morristown businessman.
1918 - Died of Spanish flu on December 22nd in New York, New York.
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War and the Intellectuals: Collected Essays, 1915-1919 (Bourne) by Randolph Silliman Bourne and Carl Resek (Paperback - Sep 25, 1999) Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him one of the most influential public intellectuals of...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Radical Will: Randolph Bourne 1911-1918 by Randolph Silliman, Bourne (Paperback - Nov 25, 1978) Randolph Bourne was only thirty-two when he died in 1918, but he left a legacy of astonishingly mature and incisive writings on politics, literature, and culture, which were of enormous influence in... |
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The state by Randolph Silliman Bourne (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 1998) |
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The Lyrical Left: Randolph Bourne, Alfred Stieglitz, and the Origins of Cultural Radicalism in America by Edward Abrahams (Hardcover - Jun 25, 1986) |
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Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism by Leslie J. Vaughan (Hardcover - Apr 25, 1997) In the "little rebellion" that swept New York's Greenwich Village before World War I, few figures stood out more than Randolph Bourne. Hunchbacked and caped--the "little sparrowlike man" of Dos... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Casey N. Blake (Hardcover - Nov 25, 1990) |
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