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The Last Paul Boyer Essay

I’ve been a little preoccupied for the past three months, but I saved my July 10 e-mail from Cambridge Journals Online informing me of the contents of the August issue of Modern Intellectual History (Vol. 9, No. 2). This caught my attention:

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Review Essays

THE BIG PICTURE AND THE CLOSEUP: TWO PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY*

PAUL S. BOYER**
Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Daniel T. Rodgers, Age of Fracture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011)
James T. Kloppenberg, Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011)

Footnotes

* My thanks to Charles Capper and Ann Boyer for their helpful critical readings of earlier drafts of this review.

** Sadly, on 17 March 2012, several months after he delivered this review essay, Paul Boyer passed away.
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Has anyone read the essay? Care to share your findings? – TL