Like a Conquered Province
 First edition | |
| Author | Paul Goodman |
|---|---|
| Subject | Social criticism |
| Published | May 1967 (Random House)[1] |
| Pages | 142 |
| OCLC | 712336 |
| LC Class | E169.1 G66 |
| External audio | |
|---|---|
 Goodman's 1966 Massey Lecture audio in six parts |
Like a Conquered Province: The Moral Ambiguity of America is a book of Paul Goodman's Massey Lectures for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on topics of American pathologies, in particular, citizens not taking responsibility for the consequences of inequality and harmful technologies. He advocates for decentralized alternatives to existing institutions that give greater control to individuals.
Publication
Vintage Books published a dual paperback edition in February 1968 combining Like a Conquered Province with People or Personnel.[2] Like a Conquered Province's paperback appendices reprint eight Goodman essays from 1967: "Three Letters to Decision-Makers" (Liberation), "What Is American?" (Liberation), "The Education Industries" (Harvard Educational Review), "Muste's Nonviolence" (under a different title in Liberation), "We Won't Go" (The New York Review of Books) "Rural Life: 1984" (under a different title in Ramparts), "A Causerie at the Military-Industrial" (The New York Review of Books).[3]
References
- ^ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction".
- ^ Nicely 1979, p. 105.
- ^ Nicely 1979, pp. 105, 114, 116, 117, 119.
Bibliography
- Nicely, Tom (1979). Adam and His Work: A Bibliography of Sources by and about Paul Goodman (1911–1972). Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-1219-2. OCLC 4832535.
Further reading
- Curtis, C. Michael (September 2, 1967). "Alternatives to Apathy". The Saturday Review. pp. 27–32. ISSN 0036-4983.
- Davids, Leo (1970). "Rev. of People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province". International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 11 (1): 73–75. doi:10.1163/156854270X00075. ISSN 0020-7152.
- Duberman, Martin (June 11, 1967). "The Private Man and Public Prophet (Rev. of Five Years and Like a Conquered Province by Paul Goodman)". New York Times Book Review. Vol. 72. pp. 3, 45. ISSN 0028-7806.
- Epstein, Joseph (June 11, 1967). "Rev. of Like a Conquered Province". Book Week. pp. 4–5. ISSN 0524-059X. OCLC 01536776.
- Kirsch, Robert R. (August 17, 1967). "Morose Criticism of U.S.". Los Angeles Times. p. C12. ISSN 0458-3035 – via ProQuest.
- Lask, Thomas (May 23, 1967). "Books of The Times: Classic Greek". The New York Times. p. 49M. ISSN 0362-4331.
- Letwin, Shirley Robin (March 3, 1973). "Shirley Robin Letwin on the hero of the Beat Generation (Book Review)". The Spectator. Vol. 230, no. 7549. pp. 266–267. ISSN 0038-6952 – via ProQuest.
- Levensohn, Alan (June 8, 1967). "Paul Goodman: Gadfly to the Passive". The Christian Science Monitor. p. 11 – via ProQuest.
- Levine, George (February 18, 1973). "Paul Goodman, Outsider Looking In". The New York Times Book Review. pp. 4–6. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 119671494.
- Schroth, Raymond A. (July 22, 1967). "Rev. of Like a Conquered Province". America. Vol. 117. p. 86. ISSN 0002-7049.
- Terkel, Studs (September 1967). "Rev. of Like a Conquered Province". Ramparts. pp. 64–65.
- Thompson, John (August 3, 1967). "Good Man (Rev. of Like a Conquered Province and Five Years by Paul Goodman)". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 9, no. 2. p. 17. ISSN 0028-7504.
- "Rev. of Like a Conquered Province". Virginia Quarterly Review. Vol. 43. 1967. p. R158. ISSN 0042-675X – via Book Review Index.
- "Rev. of Like a Conquered Province". The New Yorker. Vol. 43, no. 28. September 2, 1967. pp. 85–86. ISSN 0028-792X. EBSCOhost 22871682.
External links
- Full text at the Internet Archive
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