Document Type
Introduction
Abstract
[First paragraph]
In 2005, we seized an opportunity for a new publication marking the anniversaries of two significant works of cultural history, Alan Wald's The New York Intellectuals and The Cultural Front by Michael Denning. The latter work was approaching its tenth anniversary at the time and seemed to us to call for revisiting and revaluation. Simultaneously, we noted that the former work had surfaced as a reference point in hostile attempts to make sense of Bush administration neoconservative foreign policy, against a broader backdrop of intellectual realignment over the question of the "war on terror." Combining this "calendar story" with analyses of recent trends seemed like a strong rationale for what became Reconstruction 8.1: Class, Culture and Public Intellectuals. Readers may judge the results for themselves.
Repository Citation
Barnfield, Graham, Victor Cohen, and Joseph G. Ramsey. "Facing the Future After Richard Wright [Special Section Introduction]." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 4, 2008, pp. 1–4. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss4/9