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Transcript: Interview: Jedediah Purdy discusses his new ...
Talk of the Nation (NPR);  March 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... NPR) 03-05-2003 Interview: Jedediah Purdy discusses his new book, "Being America ... m Neal Conan in Washington. Author Jedediah Purdy has a new book out called "Being America ... what they loathe in themselves.' Jedediah Purdy joins us now in Studio 3A, and welcome ...

Irony's Irony: Jedediah Purdy and the Plight of the Young ...
Social Policy;  June 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... wish this young man well"; he counseled the young author to read some of his preferred classics and more academic work about irony (he even provided a list of books). Wilfred McKlay at Commentary complained that "if Jedediah Purdy had be

Article: BOOK REVIEW: Susan Faludi's 'Stiffed' & Jedediah ...
University Wire;  October 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... point Faludi's Stiffed inadvertently meets another book which has been receiving press attention: For Common Things by Jedediah Purdy. Purdy is a 24-year-old young man who grew up home-schooled in the mountains of West Virginia but went on to attend ...

Article: Able to leap cynicism in a single ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  October 7, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... than barbed wit. Able to quote 16th-century essayists with a single breath. No, it's not Superman - nor is it author Jedediah Purdy. The caricature with a giant S over his heart is Mr. Purdy's "alter ego," created by the media to do battle with ...

Article: A Tolerable Anarchy.(Books)(A Tolerable ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  March 20, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Leddy America represents the promise of freedom - although not always the reality. That's the view Jedediah Purdy offers in A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom, his erudite, topical, thought ...

Article: Our cherished paradoxes.('A Tolerable Anarchy: ...
The American Prospect;  July 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...A TOLERABLE ANARCHY: REBELS, REACTIONARIES, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FREEDOM BY JEDEDIAH PURDY, Alfred A. Knopf, 294 pages ... which he places unswerving faith." A Tolerable Anarchy explores the different ways in which ...

Article: The Future of Liberalism/ A Tolerable Anarchy BOOKS
International Herald Tribune;  March 27, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... of Liberalism/ A Tolerable Anarchy BOOKS Byline: Gary ... 25.95. * A Tolerable Anarchy Rebels, Reactionaries ... American Freedom By Jedediah Purdy. 294 pages. Alfred ... know-nothings and Jedediah Purdy's reconciliation ...