Levine, Lawrence W(illiam)

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LEVINE, Lawrence W(illiam)

LEVINE, Lawrence W(illiam). American, b. 1933. Genres: History. Career: City College of New York, NYC, lecturer, 1959-61; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, instructor, 1961-62; University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor, 1962-67, associate professor, 1967-70, professor of history, 1970-84, Margaret Byrne Professor, 1984-. Visiting professor at University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1967-68, and Free University of Berlin, West Germany, 1977. Publications: Defender of the Faith: William Jennings Bryan; The Last Decade, 1915-1925, 1965; (ed. with R.M. Abrams) The Shaping of Twentieth-Century America: Interpretive Essays, 1965; (ed. with R. Middlekauff) The National Temper: Readings in American Culture and Society, 1968; Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom, 1978; Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America, 1988. Address: Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.

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