John Patrick Diggins - Bibliography

Bibliography

• (2011) Why Niebuhr Now? (ISBN 9780226148830)
• (2007) Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy (ISBN 9780226148809)
• (2007) Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History
• (2004) The Portable John Adams (editor)
• (2003) John Adams: The American Presidents Series
• (2000) On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History
• (1997) The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and the Challenge of the American Past (co-editor)
• (1996) Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy
• (1994) The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority (ISBN 9780226148786)
• (1988) The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960
• (1984) The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism (ISBN 9780226148779)
• (1981) The Problem of Authority in American (co-editor)
• (1978) The Bard of Savagery: Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory
• (1975) Up From Communism: Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual History
• (1973) The American Left in the Twentieth Century (reworked into The Rise and Fall of the American Left, 1992)
• (1972) Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America

Journal Articles

• Dos Passos and Veblen’s Villains, Antioch Review 23, no. 4 (1963-1964): 485-500.
• Flirtation with Fascism: American Pragmatic Liberals and Mussolini’s Italy, American Historical Review 71, no. 2 (1966): 487-506.
• The American Writer, Fascism, and the Liberation of Italy, American Quarterly 18, no. 4 (1966): 599-614.
• Mussolini and America: Hero-Worship, Charisma, and the “Vulgar Talent,” Historian 28, no. 4 (1966): 559-85.
• American Catholics and Italian Fascism, Journal of Contemporary History 2, no. 4 (1967): 51-68.
• The Italo-American Antifascist Opposition, Journal of American History 54, no. 3 (1967)
• Ideology and Pragmatism: Philosophy or Passion?, American Political Science Review 64, no. 3 (1970): 899-906.
• Consciousness and Ideology in American History: The Burden of Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historical Review 76, no. 1 (1971): 99-118.
• The Perils of Naturalism: Some Reflections on Daniel J. Boorstin’s Approach to American History, American Quarterly 23, no. 2 (1971): 153-80.
• Thoreau, Marx, and the "Riddle" of Alienation, Social Research 39, no. 4 (1972)
• Getting Hegel out of History: Max Eastman’s Quarrel with Marxism, American Historical Review 79, no. 1 (1974): 38-71.
• Visions of Chaos and Visions of Order: Dos Passos as Historian, American Literature 46, no. 3 (1974): 329-46.
• Four Theories in Search of a Reality: James Burnham, Soviet Communism, and the Cold War, American Political Science Review 70, no. 2 (1976): 492-508.
• Slavery, Race, and Equality: Jefferson and the Pathos of the Enlightenment, American Quarterly 28, no. 2 (1976): 206-28.
• Animism and the Origins of Alienation: The Anthropological Perspective of Thorstein Veblen, History and Theory 16, no. 2 (1977): 113-36.
• Reification and the Cultural Hegemony of Capitalism: The Perspectives of Marx and Veblen, Social Research 44, no. 2 (1977).
• Barbarism and Capitalism: The Strange Perspectives of Thorstein Veblem, Marxist Perspectives 1, no. 2 (1978): 138-57.
• The Socialization of Authority and the Dilemmas of American Liberalism, Social Research 46 (1979): 454-86.
• Power and Authority in American History: The Case of Charles A. Beard and his Critics, American Historical Review 86, no. 4 (1981): 701-30.
• The Oyster and the Pearl: The Problem of Contextualism in Intellectual History, History and Theory 23, no. 2 (1984): 151-69.
• Republicanism and Progressivism, American Quarterly 37, no. 4 (1985): 572-98.
• “Who Bore the Failure of the Light”: Henry Adams and the Crisis of Authority, New England Quarterly 58, no. 2 (1985): 165- 92.
• Comrades and Citizens: New Mythologies in American Historiography, American Historical Review 90, no. 3 (1985): 614-38.
• Between Bailyn and Beard: The Perspectives of Gordon S. Wood, William and Mary Quarterly vol. XLIV (1987): 563-68.
• John Adams et les Critiques Francais de la Constitution Americaine (“John Adams and the French Critics of the Constitution”), La Revue Tocqueville 9 (1987-1988): 155-80.
• The Misuses of Gramsci, The Journal of American History 75, no. 1 (1988): 141-45.
• Knowledge and Sorrow: Louis Hartz’s Quarrel with American History, Political Theory 16, no. 3 (1988): 355-76.
• Class, Classical, and Consensus Views of the Constitution, University of Chicago Law Review 55, no. 2 (1988): 555-70.
• From Pragmatism to Natural Law: Walter Lippmann’s Quest for the Foundation of Legitimacy, Political Theory 19, no. 4 (1991): 519-38.
• Thorstein Veblen and the Literature of the Theory Class, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 6, no. 4 (1993): 481-90.
• America’s Two Visitors: Tocqueville and Weber, La Revue Tocqueville 17, no. 2 (1996): 165-182.
• Arthur O. Lovejoy and the Challenge of Intellectual History, Journal of the History of Ideas 67, no. 1 (2006): 181-208.