Professor of American intelllectual history, University of California, Berkeley, 1952-1980 oral history transcript / with an introduction by David T. Bailey ; interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1998; Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [c1999]

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Professor of American intelllectual history, University of California, Berkeley, 1952-1980 oral history transcript / with an introduction by David T. Bailey ; interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1998; Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [c1999]

"Family, youth, and public school education in Berkeley; undergraduate years at University of California, social life and radical politics on campus, 1933-1937; graduate study in American history at Harvard University, 1937-1941: friendships, mentors, marriage, attutudes toward communism and war in Europe; teaching at Lawrence College; World War II service in the Pacific as a Japanese language officer; professor at Scripps College, 1947-1952, Salzburg seminar; professor of history at Berkeley, 1952-1980: social life of Berkeley faculty and community, faculty hiring and promotions; observations and role during the 1960s-1970s, Third World strike, People's Park, impact on university teaching and society; research, writing, and teaching on American intellectual life, study of religion, family history; reflections on the craft of history."--Cataloging information, prelim. p. [1].

xii, 218 p. , bound : ill. ; 29 cm.

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