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Marco Mariano. Lo storico nel suo labirinto: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. tra ricerca storica, impegno civile e politica. Milan: Francoangeli. 1999. Pp. 270.

Marco Mariano writes the biography of an "egghead" who in his experience emblematically synthesized the relationship between research and the civic engagement of an intellectual in the United States during the long period after World War II until now. Rich in content, Mariano's seven-chapter book presents to Italian historians the interactive plot sketched out by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who has proposed his thesis about the public use of the past in essays written with charm and literary ability. 1

Mariano demonstrates the constant connection between public experience and Schlesinger's private life. He had an ideological awareness and shared the values of a well-known cultural tradition thanks to the relationship with his father, also a historian, and to the net of "familial frequenting." This formative experience molded the citizen and the scholar, who became aware that in the universities the hegemony of the progressive school was over and that a new historical orthodoxy prevailed. . . .

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